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Starbucks closes its Tulum hotel zone store after 11 years
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.
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Tulum hotel closures reach 900 rooms
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.
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Mexicana de Aviación added 18 monthly Tulum flights since January
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.
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The $600 room and the expectation that comes with it
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.
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Aeromexico ends its Tulum flights at the close of September
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.
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Five Tulum hotels turned off the lights, and the coast now waits for October
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.
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Tulum's hoteliers welcome the artists and want the mass events off the coastal strip
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.
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Two pitches stand between a Tulum plastic plant and a million dollars
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.
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Tulum business owners ask landlords to cut commercial rents
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.
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Tulum's hotel association rules out closing through sargassum season
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.
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December must pay for the summer Tulum lost, and bookings already say 85 percent
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.
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Tulum hotels say the pandemic was easier on their finances than this 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.
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Three unions, one road, and not enough passengers to keep them all working
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.
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Seventy Tulum Businesses Closed This Summer, These Twenty Women Say Theirs Did Not
Tulum 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.
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Tulum hotel occupancy near 15% sends hoteliers to the banks and toward seasonal closing
Tulum hotel occupancy on the coast is running near 15%, sargassum removal costs up to 500,000 pesos a week, and hoteliers want credit restructuring from commercial and development banks.
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Some Tulum Restaurants Have Already Closed, and the Chamber Cannot Say How Many
Tulum restaurant closures have begun this low season, Canirac says, while the chamber prepares promotions aimed at residents to keep kitchens open until tourism returns.
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Some Tulum Hotels May Close for Months at a Time. Sargassum Is the Reason
Tulum beach hotels are studying whether to operate only outside the sargassum season, after cleanup costs, weak occupancy, and a 274,000-passenger drop at Cancún airport in June.
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Italdo Puts Tulum Back on Mexico's National Bakery Ballot for MexBest 2026
Twenty-five bakeries made the MexBest 2026 public ballot. One bakes sourdough in La Veleta. Italdo returns for a second straight year, up against the last two champions.
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Hotel occupancy in Tulum climbs to 45 percent, far below the union's safety line
Hotel occupancy in Tulum and the corridor to Puerto Morelos has recovered to 45 percent, CROC says. Sedetur's count is higher, and both sit far from the level that protects hotel jobs.
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Merchants say a free camera connection for Tulum business licenses cost them 1,500 pesos
Shop and restaurant owners say a camera connection required for Tulum business licenses costs them 1,200 to 1,500 pesos. City Hall says the step is free.
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Seventy Tulum storefronts went dark, and the city says the landlords hold the answer
Around 70 Tulum businesses have suspended operations in recent months. The municipal enforcement director points to commercial rents, not permits, and asks landlords to adjust.