The curbs are going in on Calle 7, and the middle of the street is still broken. That is much of Tulum this week: the edges finished while the center waits, a grid that never caught up with the colonias built on top of it, a December already nearly full after a summer the hotels would rather not repeat. Three people are being held over the killing of a taxi driver in the center; that stands on its own. The rest is a town working through the quiet months, plaques going up in eight kitchens, hatchlings on the sand. The middle of the street will get there. Here it is, curbs and all.
UN Tourism, Inmobilia and Thor Urbana place UMusic Hotel Tulum at the center of Tulum Renace, the federal strategy betting on culture to reactivate the destination.
Continue readingPower outages in Tulum start in the last kilometer of the network. Who supplies the service, why the rain trips the circuits, and why the same three colonias go first.
Continue readingTulum hotel occupancy is projected at 50 to 55 percent for September and 80 to 85 percent by December, on reservations the CROC says hotels already hold after a collapsed summer.
Continue readingCalle 7 Tulum is a construction site again. Curbs and sidewalks are going in, the center of the street is still broken, and no completion date has been given.
Continue readingEight Tulum restaurants received MICHELIN plaques on Friday, the largest share in Quintana Roo. Two hold a Bib Gourmand, six a recommendation, and none a star.
Continue readingNafin and Bancomext are weighing sargassum plan financing for new collection ships and eroded beaches, with Quintana Roo hotels and small businesses in the same conversation.
Continue readingDo not drink the tap water in Tulum. What it is fine for, what a garrafón costs, and why the aquifer under the town, not the tap itself, is the reason.
Continue readingSea turtle hatchlings are now reaching the beaches of Quintana Roo, and two videos of people picking them up are under investigation. The state committee has set out what to do and what not to.
Continue readingRepatriation flights at Tulum airport now move 1,000 to 1,200 passengers a month onto ADO buses, a flow the company says did not exist a year ago.
Continue readingTulum hotel occupancy has been too low to cover payroll since June. The hotel association says sargassum removal, the exchange rate, and fewer airline seats are all on the same bill.
Continue readingTwo Tulum colectivo stops on Highway 307 went quiet to ease congestion. Untrac says the bays may now be reserved for a single union, and riders are walking farther.
Continue readingThree people detained in the city center on drug and weapons charges are now linked to the Tulum taxi driver murder, the state attorney general said. No motive has been made public.
Continue readingZofemat says Tulum beach erosion is not the fault of sargassum crews. A Caribbean study of removed seaweed found 61 percent of the volume was sand.
Continue readingQuintana Roo's prosecutor announced four Tulum homicide arrests, including a Canadian national and a 17-year-old, in cases tied to the killings of a taxi driver and another man.
Continue readingTulum artisan sales are moving again in Macario Gómez and Francisco Uh May. Ilaria Poot puts the increase at 5 to 10 percent and calls it too early to name a recovery.
Continue readingRoutes vanished, occupancy fell, and prices bent. The case for Tulum real estate investment now runs through absorption, a water permit, and a 13-route winter schedule.
Continue readingTwo trains, two days, and 1,631 pesos in premier class. A first ride on the Tren Maya from Tulum to Palenque, from dining car tamales to the night service that does not yet exist.
Continue readingThree unions that run the Tulum to Playa del Carmen vans agreed to a 30-day rotation, with two working and one resting each day, as ridership falls.
Continue readingWitnesses describe an attack on a Tulum tortilla shop that never happened. The gunman's magazine hit the pavement, and he rode away. No injuries, no arrests, no official account.
Continue readingTulum women business owners in the Amexme chapter say not one of their 20 companies has closed, even as the destination posts its lowest hotel occupancy on record.
Continue readingProsecutors 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.
Continue readingVisitors 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.
Continue readingVacation rentals in Tulum have spread into irregular settlements, the hotel association says, and no census exists to count them. Five registries would answer it. None has been crossed.
Continue readingTulum 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.
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