Guides, access updates, regulations, and practical planning around cenotes and the Tulum archaeological zone.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Visitors say lots advertising free Tulum ruins parking honor the offer only if you buy a tour, a meal or a souvenir. Refuse, and they are asked to move the car.
Hotel occupancy has fallen more than 20 percent since May. The municipal tourism office is staking the Tulum tourism recovery on 40 cenotes, four winter routes and a Michelin pitch.
The army's Grupo Mundo Maya hotels published their 2026 rate card. A night runs 1,155 pesos near Tulum airport in low season and 3,332 beside the ruins for the holidays.
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.
Maya Train Section 5 gained two round trips this week, six months after a federal court ordered Profepa to inspect and protect the same stretch. Here is what that order requires.
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.
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.
Electric carts again link the traditional entrance to the Tulum Archaeological Zone for 20 pesos, the first Tulum Renace promise visitors can actually board.
ADO is finishing a 37 million peso terminal beside Tulum's ruins. The new ADO terminal will run around the clock, with direct routes to the airport and Cancún.
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.
Mexico's Tourism Ministry will demolish the entrance wall at Parque del Jaguar and start a tourist corridor in 2026. Faster access, artisan stalls, and no budget yet.
Illegal dumping in Tulum is down about 75 percent, from more than 45 sites to 11. The ones left fill back up faster than crews can clear them.
Fifteen images from Parque Nacional Tulum's monitoring rounds hang in the Sala Tunich. The Tulum photo exhibition marks four years of the Jaguar-protected area and closes this week.
