The departure board at the airport has fewer names on it than it did a year ago. The calendar is filling in the other direction. An opening night already booked into 2027, a festival that got through its first edition and is planning the next, a trilogy finished after twenty-two years of living here, a belt carried home from Cozumel. And between those two facts sit neighbors filing petitions about a highway crossing and the water coming out of their taps, doing the slow paperwork of people who still intend to be here—fewer ways in, more reasons to stay. The week is below.
Tulum airport flight cuts took Aeroméxico out on September 30 and Volaris in January. Federal data show that the only routes growing this year are operated by the state airline, Mexicana.
Continue readingFanny Barry, co-founder of Tribal Tulum, completes her Eco Woman trilogy with Resolution, the latest chapter in 22 years of teaching, writing, and building a life in Tulum.
Continue readingTwo national airlines quit Tulum airport in a single week. Behind the exits sits a 33.2 percent drop in traffic and a military group losing money across its tourism companies.
Continue readingTulum boxer Asia Raele fought at 50 kilos in Cozumel, knocked down national champion Dinack Garza in the first round and came home with the Golpe de Oro belt.
Continue readingA La Veleta road safety petition filed September 21 asks federal authorities to study the Highway 307 entrance at Avenida Quinta Sur and rule on a traffic light and a protected crossing.
Continue readingSeventeen hours of yoga, fire, and gongs at Oasis, then a free closing on the palace esplanade. Tulum Yoga Music Fest ended its first edition, with the tourism office planning the next.
Continue readingRenaissance takes Zamna Tulum's New Year's Eve with Sasha, Maceo Plex, Sébastien Léger and Ida Engberg, opening a ten-day anniversary season that ends with Adam Port on January 10.
Continue readingRoad safety in Tulum hinges on streets the municipality does not yet own. The engineers' association wants them municipalized, starting in the fast-growing south.
Continue readingAeromexico Tulum flights end on September 30, with none filed through August 2027. What the exit leaves on the domestic board, and what ticket holders can claim.
Continue readingAeroméxico has already flown its last. Volaris leaves on January 7, and Tulum airport flights are reduced to two Mexican carriers, while Punta Cana picks up the frequencies.
Continue readingCrews have started removing the wall at the Tulum ruins entrance, the module with bathrooms and drinking fountains that never worked, to open the corridor promised under Tulum Renace.
Continue readingRichie Incognito and Chelsea Lovell host a Buffalo Bills weekend in Tulum at La Zebra, December 3 to 7, ending with a watch party for the Bills at the Patriots game.
Continue readingSuspected La Veleta water contamination, seen in neighbors' videos of cloudy, foul-smelling water, has a Tulum group asking authorities to sample the aquifer.
Continue readingA hotelier explained why Tulum is expensive, and the math holds. The harder question is what a $600 room is supposed to feel like once the guest stops caring about water trucks.
Continue readingA yoga teacher training in Tulum pairs a 200-hour certificate with breathwork facilitation over 21 residential days, taught by five teachers from different lineages.
Continue readingTulum Yoga Music Fest opened with a kirtan for nearly 100 people inside Azulik's dome and will close on Sunday after a week of classes, music, and ceremony across town.
Continue readingSouljourn Yoga's first trip to Mexico is a Tulum yoga retreat in March 2027, with $200 from every registration going to LADLE, the community center for local kids in town.
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