Tulum tourism fell through 2026 while Mexico posted record arrivals. Airport routes, room rates, sargassum, and rents explain a correction that the winter schedule will finally measure.
After more than 20 years of shared dives, a signed agreement now supports underwater archaeology in Quintana Roo, extending to Tulum's Hoyo Negro and the region's deepest flooded caves.
Cruz Roja paramedics confirmed both deaths. The two men found dead in Tulum lots have no names, no ages, and no cause of death, and prosecutors have not linked the cases.
Prosecutors opened a homicide case after a Tulum taxi driver was shot dead at kilometer 12.5 of the Cobá highway. He has not been publicly identified.
Visitors say lots advertising free Tulum ruins parking honor the offer only if you buy a tour, a meal or a souvenir. Refuse, and they are asked to move the car.
The municipality now hauls a third of what it collected in peak season, and public services links the fall in Tulum garbage collection directly to emptier hotels and restaurants.
Tulum tour touts still intercept cars at the ruins entrance and push 900-peso packages, months into a federal plan built on cheaper access and restored visitor trust.
Boxing in Tulum drew children and teenagers to the municipal sports complex on Sunday, part of a class that ran at more than 275 sites nationwide. The coaches are after habits, not titles.
State officials met the airport's administrator to plan the return of Tulum airport flights to Panama, Colombia and winter routes from Canada and Newark. Four international routes remain.
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The Diablillas de Hondzonot put 15 runs on Selección Xuilub at home on Saturday and moved into the Zona Maya final against Piñeras de Chan Chen, on a date the league has yet to announce.
A sea turtle rescue in Tulum ended with a 220-kilogram green turtle back in the Caribbean after firefighters lifted it out of a hotel swimming pool.
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.
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.
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