Tulum’s Archaeological Site set for upgrades and repairs
The infrastructure and services of the Tulum archaeological zone will be improved this year in order to prepare the Walled City to receive more visitors once the Tren Maya is operational.
Diego Castañón Trejo, the municipal president of Tulum, announced that after four decades of not allocating resources to the zone, resources will finally be allocated to improve and maintain the 73 monuments it houses.
“The resources that will be applied will be from the “Promeza” program, which our President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had the good sense to create for the preservation of the country’s pre-Hispanic venues, and whose rescue in Quintana Roo is led by our Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa,” expressed the mayor.
According to Mexican government authorities, “Promeza” (Program for the Improvement of Archaeological Zones) has resources in the amount of 4,906 million pesos in order for the Ministry of Culture, through INAH, to rescue and preserve the pre-Hispanic heritage of the region.
In a work meeting with the mayor of Tulum, the director of the INAH Quintana Roo Center, Margarito Molina Rendón, confirmed that the Institute and the ninth municipality are strengthening “cooperation for the improvement of the experience of the large flow of visitors received by the archaeological zone.”
According to the federal official, the priority is to organize the flow of tourists through new trail proposals and the opening of spaces within the walls that had not been explored before.
The ancient Zamá received 1,405,140 visitors in 2022, a record that Castañón Trejo believes will be surpassed to reach the figure of 3.5 million visitors once the Tren Maya provides service in sections 5 and 6.
“Your archaeological heritage and the beauty of your beaches will consolidate Tulum as the capital of the Maya Caribbean,” concluded the mayor.
Improvements and maintenance of the 73 monuments in the Tulum archaeological zone will be funded through the “Promeza” program, which was created by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the preservation of Mexico’s pre-Hispanic venues. The program has a budget of 4,906 million pesos to rescue and preserve the pre-Hispanic heritage of the Quintana Roo region, according to Mexican government authorities.
In a meeting with the mayor of Tulum, the director of the INAH Quintana Roo Center confirmed that the Institute and the municipality are working together to improve the experience of the large flow of visitors received by the archaeological zone. The priority is to organize the flow of tourists through new trail proposals and the opening of spaces within the walls that had not been explored before.
The ancient Zamá received a record 1,405,140 visitors in 2022, and the municipal president of Tulum expects this number to be surpassed once the Tren Maya provides service in sections 5 and 6, with a target of 3.5 million visitors. Tulum’s archaeological heritage and the beauty of its beaches will consolidate the area as the capital of the Maya Caribbean.
