Who collects
The first MGTA certified operator cohort: 3 to 5 hotels and an ecosystem company as candidate 0, with the certification decision in the hands of an external evaluator. Without live data, there is no certification.
SUBSYSTEM 7 · SOVEREIGN RETENTION
The money that stays on the island.
Of every tourism transaction that goes through the system, half of what is retained goes to the District Community Fund — a fund dedicated to conservation and the community. There is no revenue yet: the Fund is design until the first certified cohort.
THE FLOW
The money flow, in plain words
A sale comes in; the system retains a part; that part is split equally between the Community Fund and the operation. Nothing else.
- Amount
- The price of the sale or contract (what the visitor pays).
- Management Fee (TRS)
- What the system retains from the amount. It is not a tax: it is a commercial fee for its services.
- Retained
- The part of the amount that stays in the system (20% for direct sales; 10% for the corridor).
- 50/50 rule
- Of what is retained, half goes to the Fund and half to the operation. It is non-negotiable.
- DCF (District Community Fund)
- The half that goes to conservation and community: rangers, parrot nests, workshops, scholarships.
- SOT operation
- The other half: technology, certification, data and attention.
THE FORMULA
The public formula
A single formula, with its declared base: the amount. The chain is written in full, once.
transaction (amount) → 20% or 10% retained → 50/50 → DCF = 10% or 5% of the amount
The Fund receives 10% of the amount on direct sales and 5% on corridor contracts. Half of what is retained. It is the same formula used by the Green Book, the session panel and the sufficiency table.
Step by step: 100 USD and 10,000 USD
| Amount | Mode | Operator | Retained | DCF | Operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US$ 100 | B2C | US$ 80 | US$ 20 | US$ 10 | US$ 10 |
| US$ 100 | G2C | US$ 90 | US$ 10 | US$ 5 | US$ 5 |
| US$ 10,000 | B2C | US$ 8,000 | US$ 2,000 | US$ 1,000 | US$ 1,000 |
| US$ 10,000 | G2C | US$ 9,000 | US$ 1,000 | US$ 500 | US$ 500 |
THE CALCULATOR
Calculate a transaction
Move the amount and choose the mode. The result is a simulation of the current formula; it is not real revenue.
Move the amount and choose the mode. The result is a simulation of the current formula; it is not real revenue.
Split
Operator—
Fund (DCF)—
Operation—
Retenido (TRS)—
One-month projection
Fund accumulated / month—
Fund accumulated / year—
Volunteer insurance cap (5% of the Fund)—
SUFFICIENCY
Is it enough? The table, in the open
The declared threshold to sustain one significant conservation programme is on the order of 100,000 USD per year. The table shows the 27 scenarios; the observation is published together with the formula.
Under the current formula, 14 of the 27 scenarios reach or exceed 100,000 USD per year — 6 of them in pure direct sales. The scenarios below the threshold are the start-up ones (10,000 visitors) and pure external corridor. The Pluralist Capital Matrix is not a condition for the Fund to exist: it is a declared multiplier that accelerates start-up and pure expedition worlds.
FCD = 10% of B2C amount · 5% G2C · threshold US$ 100.000 [E]
| Visitors/year | Average spend | B2C/G2C mix | Annual amount | Annual Fund | ≥100k? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | US$ 30 | 100/0 | US$ 300,000 | US$ 30,000 | No |
| 10,000 | US$ 30 | 50/50 | US$ 300,000 | US$ 22,500 | No |
| 10,000 | US$ 30 | 0/100 | US$ 300,000 | US$ 15,000 | No |
| 10,000 | US$ 60 | 100/0 | US$ 600,000 | US$ 60,000 | No |
| 10,000 | US$ 60 | 50/50 | US$ 600,000 | US$ 45,000 | No |
| 10,000 | US$ 60 | 0/100 | US$ 600,000 | US$ 30,000 | No |
| 10,000 | US$ 100 | 100/0 | US$ 1,000,000 | US$ 100,000 | Yes (threshold) |
| 10,000 | US$ 100 | 50/50 | US$ 1,000,000 | US$ 75,000 | No |
| 10,000 | US$ 100 | 0/100 | US$ 1,000,000 | US$ 50,000 | No |
| 25,000 | US$ 30 | 100/0 | US$ 750,000 | US$ 75,000 | No |
| 25,000 | US$ 30 | 50/50 | US$ 750,000 | US$ 56,250 | No |
| 25,000 | US$ 30 | 0/100 | US$ 750,000 | US$ 37,500 | No |
| 25,000 | US$ 60 | 100/0 | US$ 1,500,000 | US$ 150,000 | Yes |
| 25,000 | US$ 60 | 50/50 | US$ 1,500,000 | US$ 112,500 | Yes |
| 25,000 | US$ 60 | 0/100 | US$ 1,500,000 | US$ 75,000 | No |
| 25,000 | US$ 100 | 100/0 | US$ 2,500,000 | US$ 250,000 | Yes |
| 25,000 | US$ 100 | 50/50 | US$ 2,500,000 | US$ 187,500 | Yes |
| 25,000 | US$ 100 | 0/100 | US$ 2,500,000 | US$ 125,000 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 30 | 100/0 | US$ 1,500,000 | US$ 150,000 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 30 | 50/50 | US$ 1,500,000 | US$ 112,500 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 30 | 0/100 | US$ 1,500,000 | US$ 75,000 | No |
| 50,000 | US$ 60 | 100/0 | US$ 3,000,000 | US$ 300,000 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 60 | 50/50 | US$ 3,000,000 | US$ 225,000 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 60 | 0/100 | US$ 3,000,000 | US$ 150,000 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 100 | 100/0 | US$ 5,000,000 | US$ 500,000 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 100 | 50/50 | US$ 5,000,000 | US$ 375,000 | Yes |
| 50,000 | US$ 100 | 0/100 | US$ 5,000,000 | US$ 250,000 | Yes |
THE TRUST
The Neutral Trust
The Fund is held in a trust — a contract that separates the assets from whoever manages them, to fulfil a purpose. Four inviolability conditions and one transparency condition.
- 01Structural independence: the manager has no links with the platform, the founder or the public administration.
- 02Milestone release: funds only leave against verified conservation achievements. Zero discretionary advances.
- 03Open accounts: statements published every quarter, accessible to Community Councils and the scientific observatory.
- 04Collective choice: Community Councils co-define and review what counts as a conservation milestone.
- 05Operation transparency: the operational 50% is reported in the same format, even if the Council has no veto over it.
The legal figure remains open: a civil association with milestone rules, a bank trust (Trust Law 1956 and Banking Institutions Law 2014), or a fund administered by the Mancomunidad with external audit. The annual external audit is mandatory and paid by the system’s operation.
PRECEDENTS
How the world does it
Real levies and funds, with their source. They are public instruments and are studied for their architecture, not as a legal equivalence: the SOT Management Fee is a commercial fee for services.
| Place | Instrument | Base | Current rate | What it funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | Sustainable Development Fee | per person per night | USD 100 | Consolidated Fund (no dedicated fund) |
| Maldives | Green Tax | per person per day | USD 12 / 6 | Maldives Green Fund |
| Balearics | Tourist Tax (ITS) | per stay per day | €1–4 | sustainable tourism fund |
| Palau | Pristine Paradise Environmental Fee | per international departure | USD 100 | PAN Fund · airport · states |
| Venice | Contributo di Accesso | per person per day | €5–10 | environmental measures |
| Quintana Roo | Visitax + sanitation | per arrival / per room-night | ~2.5 UMA / 30–70% UMA | state and municipal trust |
| Galápagos | Park entry fee | per visitor | USD 200 / 100 / 30 | DPNG · CGREG · GAD (100% shared) |
| Hawaii | Act 96 (TAT +0.75%) | % of lodging | 11% + 3% county | environmental stewardship |
| Caribbean (various) | entry / nightly levies | per night or arrival | USD 20–75 | destination and preservation funds |
| Namibia | Conservancies (CBNRM) | community sharing | ≥50% to benefits | community projects |
| Rwanda | Tourism Revenue Sharing | % of park revenue | 10% | neighbouring community projects |
| Kenya | WCMA 2013 + conservancies | % of benefits | ≥5% legal / 60:40 NRT | neighbouring communities |
WHO COLLECTS · WHO HOLDS
The hands in the flow
Collection is not done by the lab on its own: certified operators execute it, and the intermunicipal figure guards it.
Who holds
The Mancomunidad of the 11 municipalities — the public figure that will govern the Green Corridor — holds the assets and watches the Fund. While it is being formed, the trust and the external audit sustain inviolability.
Every sale publishes its chain: amount → operator → Fund → operation. The first invoiced sale is the Fund’s first real data point.
WHAT COMES NEXT
The Pilot Phase and the method
2027–2030: the table is recalculated with primary data (observed average spend and mix), the threshold is adjusted and the Management Fee is reviewed within its range. Nothing is promised that the table does not show.
- 2027First certified cohort and first 50/50 flow, even if it is 10 USD.
- 2028The table is recalculated with real data; the threshold is adjusted up or down.
- 2030Public balance of the Fund with external audit and review of the Fee.
Every data point carries its certainty level. What is design is declared as design; what has no source yet is declared pending. No sufficiency is promised that the table does not show.