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Ahead 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.
United 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.
A 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.
After 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.
Tulum airport incentives will run at 100 percent for three years, Sectur says. Grupo Mundo Maya still has to publish the terms, and frequencies may not return until the second half of 2027.
Uber in Tulum went live on October 20 with free introductory rides, while the company recruits local taxi drivers and motorcyclists for Uber Taxi and Uber Moto.
Uber in Tulum and Playa del Carmen began taking trips on October 20 with free opening rides. What a fare costs after the promotion is the part nobody has published.
American Airlines Tulum flights lose Miami on January 5, 2027, leaving one daily Dallas jet with 78 seats as the airport’s operator projects US service nearly doubling.
Starbucks in Tulum is down to a single store after the Boca Paila branch closed with no notice. The chain’s September closure plan for North America does not cover Mexico.
Tulum hotel closures have taken around 900 rooms out of service, ranging from 15-room properties to developments with over 200 rooms, while hoteliers count on a winter reservation book that is filling again.
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.
A 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.
Aeromexico 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.
Tulum hotel occupancy holds near 20 percent on the coastal strip, five properties have paused operations, and the sector is asking banks to restructure credit before winter.
Tulum 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.
Waste 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.
Some 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.
Seasonal closing is off the table, the hotel association says, because sargassum lands eight or nine months a year. What Tulum hotels spend, and what they want covered.
Tulum 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.
Tulum 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.
Three 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.
