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Tulum tour touts still intercept cars at the ruins entrance and push 900-peso packages, months into a federal plan built on cheaper access and restored visitor trust.
Federal fees changed on July 17, and the Tulum ruins entrance fee now runs 80 pesos for Mexicans and 265 for foreigners. Sellers working the highway turnoff have no say in it.
The Tulum Lobster Festival brings four contests to Punta Allen and the town center on August 21, 22, and 23. Cooking entries close on Wednesday, and the top plate takes 4,000 pesos.
More than 300 taxi drivers, tourist police officers, and service workers passed through Sedetur's Tulum tourism training this week, as the state put local hotel occupancy at 15%.
Rides to Akumal, Cobá, Muyil, and Puerto Aventuras run through August 23, and a 100-peso wristband is required. The full Moto Fest Tulum 2026 program, day by day.
Attackers on motorcycles killed a man known as El Moreno outside his home in Carlos Joaquín González, the second fatal Tulum shooting in four days. No arrests have been announced.
Bare bus bars, open breaker boxes, and meters lying in rubble show how electrical safety in Tulum depends on installations no one routinely inspects and few owners maintain.
Guides and merchants say jaladores are back at the Tulum ruins and stepping into Highway 307 lanes, three months after a permanent surveillance operation was announced.
The Tulum shooting in La Veleta came three weeks after federal officials stood in the town and reported two straight months without a homicide. Prosecutors have named no motive and no suspects.
Intermediate stops are gone from the main avenue. Every intercity pickup now happens at the Tulum bus terminals, and a free shuttle runs there from Aldea Tulum and Las Palmas.
On June 26, Letras Itinerantes brought 20 Maya youth from Manuel Antonio Ay to SFER IK Uh May. Most had never set foot in a contemporary art museum.
A surveillance camera caught the collision that hurt a pregnant woman and her husband on Mercurio Oriente. ATV rental in Tulum still answers to a rulebook that defines only two- and three-wheeled vehicles.
Tulum removed eight officers this year and published a complaint line. A step-by-step guide to report police corruption in Tulum, for residents and visitors alike.
The Tulum Red Cross is recruiting a business council to regain delegation status, and in August, it opens free HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis C testing with the state health ministry.
Rising unemployment in Tulum is already pushing workers into informal trade and back home, the local HR association says, and it wants mental health support restored before conditions worsen.
A Tulum nightclub shooting early Sunday killed a man reported to be the venue's head of security. A waitress was hospitalized and later moved to Playa del Carmen.
Six housemates now share Cuarto Tulum, the blue bedroom Televisa named after the Mexican Caribbean. Here is who is inside, how the room was picked, and where to watch.
A rented ATV struck a five-month-pregnant woman on Mercurio Oriente on Sunday. Tulum's traffic regulations define bicycles, tricycles, and motorcycles. It never names the ATV.
The Tulum public space operation starts in La Veleta, where inspectors and municipal police will review street vendors, mechanical workshops, and abandoned property.
A family in Cobá says both of its dogs were poisoned on Saturday. One died. It is the second dog poisoning report in the Tulum municipality this week, and no toxicology results are public.
