Tulum hotel occupancy reached 58.3 percent in the first week of November, up 16 points from late September, while vacation rentals held at 46 percent and beaches drew more visitors.
The Zamna Tulum lineup for the 10th anniversary runs six nights, from Renaissance on New Year’s Eve to Adam Port on January 10, with Amnesia making its Tulum debut.
Ramada Residences by Wyndham Tulum opens with 190 rooms in a building first planned as a condo hotel, with occupancy targets already set for December and January.
A Tulum Tourism Promotion Council cofounder wants to unite Tulum cave diving operators, specialists, and sponsors as Cancún and Playa del Carmen host the region’s dive events.
Tulum rents in Villas de Tulum fell from as much as 16,000 pesos a month to 7,000 to 9,000. Vendors and workers say the lower price still does not fit their income.
Tulum real estate is feeling the effects of the tourism slowdown, with empty rentals, stalled construction, and owners struggling to pay mortgages as a federal housing plan moves forward.
United flights to Tulum end January 4. Delta and American will be the only U.S. carriers left; Canadian airlines return for winter, and Mexico readies a 100% incentive plan.
Cars, pickups, and motorcycles crossed Jaguar Park beaches on Sunday, on sand where federal rules allow only turtle-monitoring vehicles, and Tulum’s nest count tops 6,000.
Tulum potholes reopen after every rain. Thin asphalt, waterlogged limestone bases, and cold patches explain why, and why older streets downtown still hold.
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Day of the Dead in Tulum brought families to Calle Centauro, where Paseo Tulum merchants hosted a candy night, a children’s costume parade, and folk dance.
Certified cooks from Chetumal to Lázaro Cárdenas will serve smoke-kitchen dishes at Quintana Roo’s first traditional cooks gathering, two days at Tulum’s Parque del Jaguar.
Tulum cenote pollution has made some caves under the city too risky to survey, an instructor warns, stalling work to link Sac Actun and Ox Bel Ha and document Maya remains.
Bonsai Smokehouse in Tulum cures and smokes salmon and trout in La Veleta, a project born of a grandfather’s lox-and-bagel and a reunion 15 years in the making.
Ahead of Tulum Innovation Fest, The Wealth Within Her hosts Wealth Circle on November 2, a small facilitated conversation for women founders and investors about money and risk.
United Airlines Tulum flights from Houston and Newark end in January, after Aeroméxico, Volaris, and American cut service. Canadian carriers and Mexicana now anchor the winter schedule.
Tulum municipal finances closed 2025 with 464.3 million pesos in liabilities. A Banorte loan and supplier reports of months-long payment delays now put the treasury’s books under scrutiny.
The Janal Pixán exhibition in Tulum traces a day of the Maya celebration of the dead in 20 photographs, from cornfield harvests at dawn to candlelit cemetery visits.
A closed booth at the Jaguar Park checkpoint left one cashier handling cart fares at the Tulum ruins on Thursday, and service providers want more staff before winter.
A Tulum councilman wants the Visitax scrapped and asks the state to investigate websites charging up to 550 pesos for a fee officially set at 285 pesos.
The Tulum real estate market sold half as many homes in 2025 as in 2023. Specialists now point to retirees and remote workers as the buyers who could absorb the inventory.
Letras Itinerantes marked its 10th anniversary with 20,600 books delivered and 360 volunteers. Its founder, a San Silverio volunteer and a mother from Cobá, tells what that decade built.
A federal judge bound two people over in a case on alleged environmental crimes in Tulum, centered on a property Profepa ordered restored. Both must now check in monthly.
The Janal Pixán exhibition in Tulum traces Maya Day of the Dead traditions in 20 photographs by Miguel González, on view at Mureco in Jaguar Park through February 28, 2027.
Quintana Roo’s mobility agency opened proceedings against a Tulum taxi driver holding concession 805 and will seek its permanent revocation. His own union backs the move.
A Tulum taxi concession holder working for an app says members of his own union surrounded his car near Jaguar Park, one week after Uber in Tulum began recruiting taxi drivers.
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