The water came back clear, the sand clean after a heavy summer of sargassum, and the town opened its season on somebody else's schedule. Fewer flights land now. A bank branch is sending its customers up the road, and the municipal books are being read closely. But in La Veleta, someone is curing salmon using a grandfather's recipe, and ten years' worth of books have gone out to Maya communities in the hands of volunteers. A taxi driver says members of his own union surrounded his car near Jaguar Park; that is here too. The rest is a town making things while it waits to see who arrives. Here it is.
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.
Continue readingUnited 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.
Continue readingLetras 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.
Continue readingClear water and clean sand are back on Tulum beaches inside Jaguar Park after a heavy sargassum summer, and the town is opening its winter season to travelers from everywhere.
Continue readingAhead 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.
Continue readingTulum 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.
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingQuintana 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.
Continue readingShots struck the entrance of Hotel Bacab in Tulum’s La Veleta on Saturday, and a handwritten warning addressed to a man named Rafael was left beside the building.
Continue readingThe 24th Sea Turtle Festival in Tulum concluded at the Xcacel-Xcacelito sanctuary, featuring sand sculptures, turtle films, and workshops on protecting nesting beaches.
Continue readingUber 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.
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingHundreds joined the Tulum Carrera Rosa on Sunday, carrying an early detection message to a state whose breast cancer death rate tops the national average.
Continue readingAfter 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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