After a low season of empty rooms and closed hotels, Tulum prices this winter will decide whether visitors return. Recovering losses at the register would repeat the old mistake.
Clear water and clean sand are back on Tulum beaches inside Jaguar Park after a heavy sargassum summer, and the town is opening its winter season to travelers from everywhere.
Shots struck the entrance of Hotel Bacab in Tulum’s La Veleta on Saturday, and a handwritten warning addressed to a man named Rafael was left beside the building.
Hundreds joined the Tulum Carrera Rosa on Sunday, carrying an early detection message to a state whose breast cancer death rate tops the national average.
Sargassum in Tulum is thinning on Jaguar Park’s beaches after weeks of buildup. Restaurants operating at 10 to 20 percent capacity are counting on November to reach half capacity.
Potholes in Tulum now have a citizen map. Tulum Unido wants each one pinned and labeled, the same week City Hall launched an emergency patching campaign.
Lamps hidden as rocks, headsets in six languages, 40 people at a time. What the Tulum ruins at night felt like, and what it would take to see them that way again.
Tulum is the most romantic destination in Mexico and Central America for the second year in a row, and three resorts bearing its name took four more titles.
Uber in Tulum and Playa del Carmen began taking trips on October 20 with free opening rides. What a fare costs after the promotion is the part nobody has published.
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Zofemat says sargassum in Tulum has dropped off for days, with 7,300 tons hauled this year and the hotel zone expected to be practically clean by week’s end.
Sea turtle nesting in Tulum has passed 6,000 nests this season. Volunteers want sunbeds and umbrellas off the sand at night, and a municipal rule already sets the hour.
The 21 new winter flights to Cancún and Tulum start between October 25 and January 8. Canada supplies 13 of them, and Tulum airport gets seven, six Canadian and one from Newark.
Airlines are pulling 72 percent of this quarter’s US capacity to Tulum. Investors answer with Tulum luxury tourism, a Faena complex, and a 57-room UMusic hotel opening in December.
CFE bills in Tulum doubled in two cycles, Aldea Zama residents say, with charges on empty apartments, 1,000 signatures to the president, and amparos that changed nothing.
A Tulum airport name change is on the table after councilman Eugenio Barbachano said the terminal in Felipe Carrillo Puerto should stop carrying the destination’s name.
Councilman Eugenio Barbachano says he wants no candidacy in 2027, only an opposition bloc that treats the Tulum tourism crisis as the emergency the state government still will not name.
Seven Mesoamerican cultures that never settled this coast are entering the Tulum museum at Parque del Jaguar, and 47 of the 53 new pieces will anchor a hall that does not exist yet.
The sargassum in Tulum returned this week, three weeks after the water cleared, and Quintana Roo’s record 2026 haul has already passed 138,000 tons.
Tulum’s 2026 revenue law books 36,395,275 pesos from a street lighting charge, about 22 percent more than in 2025, while repairs still arrive one neighbor’s complaint at a time.
Day of the Dead vs. Halloween is not a costume question. One night keeps the dead away; the other feeds them, and on this coast, the Maya version has its own name.
Federal road upkeep funding is set to fall by nearly half in 2027, and the requests Tulum has pending on Highway 307 are contingent on a budget that deputies have not yet voted on.
American Airlines Tulum flights lose Miami on January 5, 2027, leaving one daily Dallas jet with 78 seats as the airport’s operator projects US service nearly doubling.
Amira Neme returned to Tulum jiu-jitsu in May 2025 with one class a week. Six AJP golds later, she is training for the IBJJF No-Gi Worlds in Las Vegas.
The Faena Tulum campaign runs from the open beach light to the dark of a cenote, through the town's streets. Rafa Olarra, Pol Rodríguez, and the full list of credits.
AMATUR blames the Tulum airport military management for the airline exodus and wants a private sector council. The operator answers with 1,064 projected winter flights.
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