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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Federal figures put dengue in Quintana Roo at 196 confirmed cases, eight of them severe, while chikungunya returns after a year without a single infection.
Tulum sargassum arrivals have thinned after days of rain, and the mayor plans beach videos every two days. Specialists say the improvement is real but far from uniform.
Tulum women business owners in the Amexme chapter say not one of their 20 companies has closed, even as the destination posts its lowest hotel occupancy on record.
Tulum tourism fell through 2026 while Mexico posted record arrivals. Airport routes, room rates, sargassum, and rents explain a correction that the winter schedule will finally measure.
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.
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.
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.
A sea turtle rescue in Tulum ended with a 220-kilogram green turtle back in the Caribbean after firefighters lifted it out of a hotel swimming pool.
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.
Quintana Roo has pulled more than 105,000 tons of sargassum from its coast in 2026, already past last year's record. Tulum remains among the beaches with the heaviest accumulations.
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.
