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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.
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.
The SMN is watching three areas of the Atlantic for cyclone development. None threatens the coast, but the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is entering its most active stretch.
Water up to four degrees warmer and a record sargassum season have put hard numbers on the Riviera Maya climate crisis and on the limits of Mexico's cleanup plan.
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.
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.
Rent in Tulum starts near 10,000 pesos for an apartment in town while the state's average wage is about 9,200. The condo market is correcting. Long-term housing is not.
Units under construction climbed from 1,466 to 13,266 in six years. New figures show Tulum real estate oversupply relative to annual sales, which fell to 1,711.
Fernando Barrera and Daniel Palma of Tulum Fight Club open the professional card at Anhelo de Campeón 13 on Saturday in Querétaro, with the first bell around 7:30 p.m. Tulum time.
The Sargasso Sea is the only sea on Earth with no coastline, and the golden weed that named it now arrives on Tulum's shore by the ton. Here is the full story, from Columbus to satellite maps.
Sargassum lands on the sand, not in the cenotes. Our new community vote asks where to swim in Tulum when you head inland, and the ranking is yours to build.
La Zebra brings a fantasy football draft to Tulum this August, with Rex Ryan hosting, beachfront packages, golf access and the state tourism office on board.
The response to the Tulum tourism crisis came from the president herself, while the mayor elected to govern the destination stayed out of sight. The absence is the story.
A farewell video from La Eufemia, one of Tulum's best-known beach taquerías, has gone viral again, reviving the fight over who is to blame for Tulum's decline.
A federal decree in the Official Gazette grants free access to Parque del Jaguar and cuts Tulum archaeological zone fees, following requests from residents and business owners.
Sargassum removal in Tulum reached about 140 tons in a single day as more than 400 Navy personnel and municipal crews cleared national park beaches after Sheinbaum's visit.
Oceana wants the federal Tulum sargassum plan grounded in science and regulated harvesting, warning that the alga already carries an environmental, economic, and social toll on the coast.
Tulum's hotel sector offered to help lead the tourism recovery in a meeting with President Sheinbaum, as small coastal hotels report occupancy as low as 15 percent.
Plan Tulum Renace lowers Maya ruins entry fees, makes Parque del Jaguar free for Mexicans, opens public beaches, and adds new sargassum measures to reverse the destination's tourism slump.
The 2026 surge of sargassum in Tulum has revived research into turning the seaweed into bioasphalt, even as a local official pushes to declare an environmental contingency.
The wall at the Jaguar Park entrance will fall, replaced by an arch built by military engineers to reopen the walk from Tulum town to the ruins and the sea.
