The community-based tourism sector, promoted by the Mexican government for the past twenty years, is very popular in the Yucatán Peninsula. But at the beginning of March, the health crisis linked to COVID-19 brought tourism activity to a halt. With the support of the United Nations Development Programme, we carried out an assessment of the impact of the pandemic and the needs of the Peninsular Alliance for Community Tourism (APTC) arising from the COVID-19 in April 2020. All reservations were cancelled, resulting in an estimated loss of 14 million pesos in 2020. Cooperatives, thanks to their solidarity, have in most cases kept their employees, or have found solidarity-based ways to cope with the crisis through barter, temporary work, fishing, and agriculture.