Guides, access updates, regulations, and practical planning around cenotes and the Tulum archaeological zone.
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Advocates seek 30,000 signatures to extend the Xcacel sea turtle sanctuary into the mangroves, cenotes, and jungle as part of Tulum’s ecological zoning update.
Scientists from three countries are mapping how the Yucatan aquifer connects, testing whether the flooded caves near Tulum belong to a far larger underground network.
Tulum cenote pollution has made some caves under the city too risky to survey, an instructor warns, stalling work to link Sac Actun and Ox Bel Ha and document Maya remains.
A 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.
Lamps hidden as rocks, headsets in six languages, 40 people at a time. What the Tulum ruins at night felt like, and what it would take to see them that way again.
Crews 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.
Mexico's Culture Ministry will inspect the ceremonial pole before the Voladores de Papantla return to Tulum, six months after thin crowds drove the flyers away.
Artisans, paramedics, and food vendors inside the Parque del Jaguar are being photographed for a state register, seven weeks after the gate money moved to an army company.
Tulum weddings have fallen to their lowest demand in a decade. The registry went about two weeks in August without a single ceremony, and one resort has gone from 40 a month to one or two.
Tulum Renace moves from announcement to demolition this week at Parque del Jaguar, while the count of winter air routes still changes depending on which tourism office is speaking.
Twenty-three absorption wells, each 20 meters deep, are almost done across Tulum as the wettest months begin. The statement names one street and gives no price. The 2023 batch had one.
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.
Tulum beach access, reconstructed from the federal record. Decrees, tenders, 706 canceled titles, and documents that have not yet been published.
Reef-safe sunscreen has no legal meaning in Mexico. Around Tulum, the rule changes at every gate, from a bottle swap at the Xcaret parks to a flat ban posted at Sian Ka'an.
World Wellness Weekend reaches Tulum for the first time, September 18 to 20. A bike rally in Aldea Zamá, a Running Dance 7K, and a meditation at Parque del Jaguar.
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.
Do not drink the tap water in Tulum. What it is fine for, what a garrafón costs, and why the aquifer under the town, not the tap itself, is the reason.
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.
More than 300 Maya pieces, 1,200 square meters and no ticket at the door. What the Tulum museum inside Parque del Jaguar still costs a foreign visitor to reach.
UN Tourism, Inmobilia and Thor Urbana place UMusic Hotel Tulum at the center of Tulum Renace, the federal strategy betting on culture to reactivate the destination.
Tulum artisan sales are moving again in Macario Gómez and Francisco Uh May. Ilaria Poot puts the increase at 5 to 10 percent and calls it too early to name a recovery.
