Tulum's environmental office is asking residents to stay calm after a wild feline in La Veleta appeared on security cameras, one of at least five recent wildlife sightings in the neighborhood.
The army's Grupo Mundo Maya hotels published their 2026 rate card. A night runs 1,155 pesos near Tulum airport in low season and 3,332 beside the ruins for the holidays.
The Tulum judo team from the municipal sports schools brought home 10 medals from a national tournament in Oaxaca, and one young athlete won two of them.
Water up to four degrees warmer and a record sargassum season have put hard numbers on the Riviera Maya climate crisis and on the limits of Mexico's cleanup plan.
Crews clear sargassum in Tulum daily at Playa Conchitas, where sea turtle nests share the shoreline and the state has logged its heaviest season on record.
A neighborhood Tulum reforestation project has spent four weekends replanting a stretch of avenida Satélite. Its organizers say the harder work begins once the planting stops.
Maya Train Section 5 gained two round trips this week, six months after a federal court ordered Profepa to inspect and protect the same stretch. Here is what that order requires.
Quintana Roo has pulled more than 105,000 tons of sargassum from its coast in 2026, already past last year's record. Tulum remains among the beaches with the heaviest accumulations.
Federal fees changed on July 17, and the Tulum ruins entrance fee now runs 80 pesos for Mexicans and 265 for foreigners. Sellers working the highway turnoff have no say in it.
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The Tulum Lobster Festival brings four contests to Punta Allen and the town center on August 21, 22, and 23. Cooking entries close on Wednesday, and the top plate takes 4,000 pesos.
More than 300 taxi drivers, tourist police officers, and service workers passed through Sedetur's Tulum tourism training this week, as the state put local hotel occupancy at 15%.
Zofemat crews alone have hauled 4,880 metric tons off the sand this year, and the real Tulum sargassum total is higher once hotels and the navy are counted.
Rooms at the group's airport property drop to 1,155 pesos a night. The new Tulum hotel rates run through December 20, then climb for the holiday stretch.
Tulum hotel occupancy on the coast is running near 15%, sargassum removal costs up to 500,000 pesos a week, and hoteliers want credit restructuring from commercial and development banks.
Tulum restaurant closures have begun this low season, Canirac says, while the chamber prepares promotions aimed at residents to keep kitchens open until tourism returns.
The Day Zero Tulum 2027 lineup lands with 30 artists across three stages, an all-Mexican bill at El Teatro, one guest still unnamed, and general release tickets on August 25.
A judge ordered possession of parcel 1981 handed over at noon Tuesday, the latest turn in a Tulum land dispute that has run through amparos and reversals since 2016.
Tulum beach hotels are studying whether to operate only outside the sargassum season, after cleanup costs, weak occupancy, and a 274,000-passenger drop at Cancún airport in June.
Rides to Akumal, Cobá, Muyil, and Puerto Aventuras run through August 23, and a 100-peso wristband is required. The full Moto Fest Tulum 2026 program, day by day.
Electric carts again link the traditional entrance to the Tulum Archaeological Zone for 20 pesos, the first Tulum Renace promise visitors can actually board.
Sea turtle hatchlings appeared dead on a Tulum beach, and photos show five more in a Plaza Andador trash bin. The Ecology office opened a file that could be sent to Profepa.
Morena's founder in Quintana Roo placed Maya communities at the heart of a sovereignty assembly in Tulum, backing President Sheinbaum and warning of disinformation campaigns.
Attackers on motorcycles killed a man known as El Moreno outside his home in Carlos Joaquín González, the second fatal Tulum shooting in four days. No arrests have been announced.
NASA satellite data ranks the 2026 Sargassum belt just behind 2025, while the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico both broke records and Quintana Roo crews removed 93,000 tons.
Twenty-five bakeries made the MexBest 2026 public ballot. One bakes sourdough in La Veleta. Italdo returns for a second straight year, up against the last two champions.
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