The prices in Tulum this week are listed. A fare sheet nobody signed, rents that hold their line straight through the low season, a day rate for a desk, and the outage that comes free with it. Numbers are easy to print and easy to argue with. Harder to put on a list is what ten years looks like: the women of Hondzonot who kept playing softball barefoot until a final was waiting for them, a festival that started as one night in the jungle. This town gets measured by the day and built by the decade. Both are here, in the week below.
Tulum taxi fares rose as much as 223 percent on an unsigned union list. The prices match those in Madrid, where workers earn about six times as much as in Quintana Roo.
Continue readingZamna Tulum 2027 runs December 31 to January 10 for the festival's tenth anniversary, opening with a commemorative video and a second tier of Multipass tickets.
Continue readingFor a decade, the Diablillas Mestizas have played softball in huipiles and barefoot in Honduras. Their catcher is a third-generation player, and a Zona Maya final is waiting.
Continue readingTwenty paddlers from the Tulum dragon boat team are racing for Mexico at the world championships in Taiwan, backed by Tulum 101 by Inmobilia.
Continue readingJaime Garduño Argueta of Centro INAH Quintana Roo says a services area, a wooden staircase, and 47 moved monuments show tourism overriding science at the Tulum archaeological zone, Cobá, and Chetumal.
Continue readingLetras Itinerantes delivered 50 books to 50 children in Tulum's 10 de Octubre neighborhood. Seven more reading days and 350 books are left in the campaign.
Continue readingOpemsa published the official results of the Tulum 100 at Tulum International Airport, with 22,783 attendees, 200 million pesos for the region, and a UN Tourism presentation next week.
Continue readingCoworking spaces in Tulum run from about 14 dollars a day to 22 dollars a day, and monthly memberships from 150 to 300. What the price does not cover is the outage.
Continue readingSome commercial rents in Tulum still pass 40,000 pesos a month in the low season. Business owners want landlords to cut them, and about 70 shops have already closed this year.
Continue readingTulum hotel occupancy should turn in November, three weeks after the hotel association last placed the recovery in October. Fewer airline seats are available in the meantime.
Continue readingTulum security cameras now number more than 1,850, up from 400. The rule governing growth lies in the municipal revenue law, not in a police regulation.
Continue readingTwenty-three absorption wells, each 20 meters deep, are almost done across Tulum as the wettest months begin. The statement names one street and gives no price. The 2023 batch had one.
Continue readingWaste Neutral Technologies won the Startup World Cup Quintana Roo semifinal on August 27. The Tulum plant that makes fuel from plastic is now two rounds from a million dollars.
Continue readingThe Tulum construction slowdown has moved from the site count to the paycheck. The CROC says a skilled bricklayer's weekly earnings have fallen from 6,000 pesos to about 3,000.
Continue readingA long-term rental in Tulum averaged 19,066 pesos a month across 113 listings on September 2. What that buys by neighborhood, and the costs the rent leaves out.
Continue readingUNTRAC says two Tulum-to-Playa del Carmen colectivo stops were dropped on the main avenue and accuses the city of clearing curb space for a rival union. The city has not responded.
Continue readingElectricity bills in Tulum are based on CFE tariff 1B, where the subsidy ends at 400 kilowatt-hours. How to read the recibo and the charge the courts struck down.
Continue readingMr. Tulum 2026 filled a local stage with competitors from Cancun, Cozumel, Merida and Valladolid. Four Tulum athletes finished first, and the league says it wants more dates.
Continue readingTulum beach access, reconstructed from the federal record. Decrees, tenders, 706 canceled titles, and documents that have not yet been published.
Continue readingQuintana Roo gastronomy now means the milpa, the market, and the fisher, not only the dining rooms. What the state named in Tulum, and what the cooks got out of it.
Continue readingThe Maya called them xunan kab, the regal lady. Melipona bees gave the Yucatan its honey, its medicine, and a god. Their Quintana Roo colonies fell 93 percent in a generation.
Continue readingTiburones del Caribe says its Tulum taxi app will launch on the Play Store in about 10 days, featuring fares for cruising cabs and schedules for the colectivos.
Continue readingMotorcycle noise in Tulum returned to the municipal agenda nearly four months after an operation against modified exhausts, with residents asking why the checks stopped and the noise did not.
Continue readingA Tulum-inspired restaurant has been operating in Midtown Manhattan since 2022, built in partnership with a Michelin-starred chef from the Riviera Maya. What tán puts on the plate, and which Mexico it comes from.
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