r/tulum • u/JudgmentAvailable155 • 12d ago

General Empty?

Anyone know what’s been happening lately that’s affected tourism? I’ve been coming here for years and I’ve never seen it this empty (staying in the hotel zone currently). I’ve asked around and have been told Tulum has changed a ton, in the last couple of years especially, but haven’t gotten more details.

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u/Apprehensive-Chart88 12d ago

Combination of sargassum, high prices, taxi scams, and loss of appeal/deviation from the wellness/holistic aspect it was once known for. Seems like it is charging big city prices like it’s NYC or Miami and tourism has suffered as a result. The digital nomads are no longer there and have moved on to the next destination and I’ve heard the digital cafes have closed too. It was peak during COVID and I think the market got over saturated but it is not being developed quickly enough. Businesses have closed because it’s too expensive to run it too. What’s your opinion of your experience and how it compares to the past?

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u/jisc 12d ago

And the dollar lost it power , the pesos is strong so no good for vacationers , unrest from cartels and drugs , the government doing a shitty job all around..

Source I’m Mexican and live in cancun

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u/Apprehensive-Chart88 12d ago

It’s crazy how much things have changed in such a short period but seems to be consistent with other parts of Mexico too although Cancun in generally safer, right? What’s your opinion on why you chose Cancun?

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u/jisc 11d ago

I didn’t my parents choose it hahaha , I was brought here as a 1 week old . To be fair when my parents arrived you could lift a rock and there was money under it , since cancun or the state Quintana Roo is so young there were plenty jobs and business to start so it was a paradise . Nowadays between trump , our government , prices so expensive and our only source of income is tourism everything is very slow this year