Lead Coverage
Tulum cave collapse sends divers out through a silt cloud
A Tulum cave collapse at Heaven’s Gate, inside the Sac Actun system, sent divers out through a cloud of silt and revived June warnings about road work over the caves.
Tulum Development, Permits, and Construction Watch
Reporting on permits, construction, regulation, and major development decisions shaping Tulum’s urban growth and investment climate.
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Real Estate
Two Face Criminal Case Over Alleged Environmental Crimes in Tulum
A federal judge bound two people over in a case on alleged environmental crimes in Tulum, centered on a property Profepa ordered restored. Both must now check in monthly.
Real Estate
Environmental Groups Call for a Halt to New Tulum Real Estate Development Approvals
Sélvame MX says Tulum real estate development outran its drainage. The group wants new subdivisions stopped to protect the jungle and the Sac Actun and Ox Bel Ha rivers.
Real Estate
Sedetus pinned two Tulum developments to a map and told buyers to walk away
Sedetus and Tulum's city government warn against Yaax Taanil Kaah and Zonot Kaahah, two Tulum developments without permits now advertised on Facebook.
Environment & Nature
A court ended the Sac Actun fight without ever deciding who was right
A federal judge dismissed the legal challenge to the Sac Actun road without ruling on the environmental exemption behind it. Elijo por el Clima can still appeal to a collegiate court.
Businesses
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.
Society
A bricklayer's week in Tulum fell from 6,000 pesos to 3,000
The Tulum construction slowdown has moved from the site count to the paycheck. The CROC says a skilled bricklayer's weekly earnings have fallen from 6,000 pesos to about 3,000.
Businesses
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.
Real Estate
Long term listings in Tulum average 19,066 pesos, and that is before the utilities
A long-term rental in Tulum averaged 19,066 pesos a month across 113 listings on September 2. What that buys by neighborhood, and the costs the rent leaves out.
Society
The federal documents that explain why Tulum's public beach ever had a gate
Tulum beach access, reconstructed from the federal record. Decrees, tenders, 706 canceled titles, and documents that have not yet been published.
Businesses
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.
Environment & Nature
Clearing sargassum with the wrong machine is how a Tulum beach starts losing sand
Zofemat says the sargassum cleanup in Tulum has spared most of the sand by using less machinery. What the crews still take, and what happens at Akumal.
Society
Your refrigerator is paying for a grid that never caught up with La Veleta
Power outages in Tulum start in the last kilometer of the network. Who supplies the service, why the rain trips the circuits, and why the same three colonias go first.
Environment & Nature
Who pays for the next sargassum ship? Mexico's development banks are working on it
Nafin and Bancomext are weighing sargassum plan financing for new collection ships and eroded beaches, with Quintana Roo hotels and small businesses in the same conversation.
Environment & Nature
Picking up a hatchling for a photo can be a federal crime in Mexico
Sea turtle hatchlings are now reaching the beaches of Quintana Roo, and two videos of people picking them up are under investigation. The state committee has set out what to do and what not to.
Art & Culture
New alliance puts UMusic Hotel Tulum at the center of Mexico's Tulum Renace strategy
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.
Real Estate
4,500 vacation rentals in Tulum, and no map of the ones inside irregular settlements
Vacation rentals in Tulum have spread into irregular settlements, the hotel association says, and no census exists to count them. Five registries would answer it. None has been crossed.
Environment & Nature
Crews haul sargassum off Tulum beaches. A study says 61 percent was sand
Zofemat says Tulum beach erosion is not the fault of sargassum crews. A Caribbean study of removed seaweed found 61 percent of the volume was sand.
Politics
Why Is Calle 7 Always Under Construction in La Veleta?
Calle 7 Tulum is a construction site again. Curbs and sidewalks are going in, the center of the street is still broken, and no completion date has been given.
Riviera Maya Travel
Cross 180 days in Quintana Roo and your license stops being a tourist question
Driving in Mexico with a foreign license is legal in Quintana Roo as long as the card is valid. The insurance rule, the papers to carry, and the 180-day limit.
Real Estate
Tulum's property market is doing the zoning the boom skipped
Routes vanished, occupancy fell, and prices bent. The case for Tulum real estate investment now runs through absorption, a water permit, and a 13-route winter schedule.