It was not a social gathering, nor was it an exercise in wishes and dreams, it was an exercise in planning tourism activities, mainly nautical tourism, given the objective of the instrument, established from the basis of the understanding of the environmental system, but also of the dynamics of use of the lagoon, to establish the bases of a regulatory instrument (a regulation). Experiential experience was required and not only academic-scientific knowledge of the cabinet; but in addition, it was required a broad knowledge of the system with experience in situ, to characterize it from that perspective, to know parameters such as depth-des, seasonal variability, critical areas, navigation strategies, type of access to the areas, potential risks, human interaction in the various activities, hot spots, navigation strategies according to the types of boat, to understand how the system that was intended to regulate was conceived. In Bacalar, if you know how to work with the methodologies of identification of key informants it is easy to elucidate that this information is held by the captains of boats and the historical users of the lagoon, as was done with the proposal of Rule 23 of the APIQROO operations regulations proposed by the Community Council of the Bacalar Lagoon Basin (CONCCLAB), described in the APIQROO chapter. At PROTUR, many of the procedures they used to validate the product were, with no other way of defining it, "simulated". We obtained this perspective of the simulation from the beginning of the analysis of the instrument, with the answers, product of direct interviews with some of the actors who were summoned to participate in these workshops and of the opinion on the behavior and procedure especially of Silvana Ibarra, coordinator of the consultancy, during the alleged consultations, with which we gave ourselves an idea of how the supposed "participatory construction" took place. “…we were invited to hear a proposal and when we gave opinions Silvana did not like it if we did not agree and forcibly wanted us to accept what she said, I better end up just listening, because in the end she did what she wanted…” Joaquin Calderon. Member of the cooperative of Nautical Service Providers
It is important at this point to make the observation that some of those involved appear in the PROTUR document as part of the core team of logistics convening, management and facilitation of workshops, but when they were interviewed to obtain information on the form of integration and 123
