Tulum Tour Bookings Climb as Sargassum Thins and the Turquoise Water Returns
Tulum tour bookings are rising as sargassum thins on the coast. One sales agent expects diving to climb 35 to 40 percent in November and as much as 60 percent in December.
Tulum tour bookings are rising as sargassum thins on the coast. One sales agent expects diving to climb 35 to 40 percent in November and as much as 60 percent in December.
A Tulum cave collapse at Heaven’s Gate, inside the Sac Actun system, sent divers out through a cloud of silt and revived June warnings about road work over the caves.
Advocates seek 30,000 signatures to extend the Xcacel sea turtle sanctuary into the mangroves, cenotes, and jungle as part of Tulum’s ecological zoning update.
With Air Canada, Air Transat, and WestJet bringing winter visitors, officials project Tulum hotel occupancy above 80 percent and a new market for Maya artisans.
Scientists from three countries are mapping how the Yucatan aquifer connects, testing whether the flooded caves near Tulum belong to a far larger underground network.
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.
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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.
A notice at the Santander Tulum branch sends in-person service to branch 0825 in Playacar, Playa del Carmen. It gives no closing date, no reason, and no word on the ATMs.
The 24th Sea Turtle Festival in Tulum concluded at the Xcacel-Xcacelito sanctuary, featuring sand sculptures, turtle films, and workshops on protecting nesting beaches.
Uber in Tulum is currently operating with licensed taxi drivers. A test ride from La Comer and a union driver explain how to sign up and who pays for the free trips.
A week in Cancun’s hotel zone incurs four government charges beyond the room rate. Here is the Cancun tourist tax bill for 2027 and where each peso is meant to go.
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.
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.
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