Tulum has easily-accessible and gorgeous beaches, without the fuss of a typical resort. Tulum is a Pre-Columbian walled city of the Maya civilization located on the Caribbean Sea coast of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico,at the most gorgeous bay of the Mayan Riviera, about a 90-minute drive. This small Caribbean town is surrounded by the jungle, archaeological Mayan sites and cenotes.

The Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Tulum. It sheltered remarkably rich flora and a fauna comprising more than 300 species of birds, as well as a large number of the region’s characteristic terrestrial vertebrates.

Tulum is surrounded by a huge stone wall. The Mayan ruins is an impressive site, ascended high above the majestic crystal blue seaside of the Caribbean and was protected by 3 enormous walls and a steep cliff. The most symbolic structures of this spot are: The El Castillo that with its 12 meter height is the tallest construction in the place. Next is Temple of the Frescos which is filled with murals.

Tulum have one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean. Tulum hotel zone stretches on for miles and miles of white sand, framed by dense jungle. The farther south you go, the more secluded the beach you will discover. It is an ideal alternative to jam-packed resorts and heavy tourist developments.

Scuba diving is a must-do activity in this part of Mexico. The clean water is teeming with marine life and coral reefs. The marine life is much diversified that a diver will definitely enjoy and love diving in.Diving enthusiasts will find ample of dive shops and tour operators, ready to take them on excursions to the coral reef or deep into the cenotes.

So not only does Tulum have some of the world’s most gorgeous beaches, but it is also home to the blessed with cenotes of the Maya, archaeological sites, sheltered parks, fantastic food, and a laid back “Eco-Chic” attitude. . Tulum is one of the best spots in the Caribbean where it’s still guaranteed you will have the best of your vacation.

In March 2009, the state government of Quintana Roo along with the Federal Government offices of Secretary of Communication and Transport (SCT) had programmed the announcement for the bidding process of a new international airport in Tulum to be constructed and operated in the world popular tourist destination of Riviera Maya.



Riviera Maya is located south of Cancun and includes the cities of Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, and Felipe Carrillo. Occupation rates of this entire region have maintained strong figures for the first quarter of 2009. February closed with 90 percent rates in Riviera Maya, while Cancun closed with 89 percent announced by the state tourist office. Both figures closed approximately two points above the results from 2008, in spite of the fact that both destinations had an increase of newly constructed hotel room inventories by more than six thousand units. In anticipation of the higher tourist volumes projected over the next 10 years, the new airport is being introduced to support the stressed capacity anticipated at the Cancun International Airport. With the construction and operation of the new Tulum airport along with the increased tourist visitors, these factors will stimulate a strong growth of tourist dollar revenues and also the demand for the second home destination industries such as those being witnessed in the Playa del Carmen real estate market and the growing Tulum real estate market.



In January of 2009, IPAE released statements to the Mexican news station Enfoque Radio, confirming that all documentation transferring more than 800 hectares to the federal government for the purpose of the Tulum Airport had been executed. The state government plans to maintain control and administration of the properties until the federal government announces the winner for the construction of the new airport. In February of 2009, Gina Patricia Ortiz Blanco, General Director of the Instituto de Patrimonio Inmobiliario del Estado (IPAE), had released to the public the that they anticipated the announcement from the SCT to occur in the first several weeks of March. She also stated that the location of the airport would be approximately 16 kilometers from the coast, in the new municipality of Tulum.



In the first week of March, Luis Téllez Kuenzler, delivered an unexpected resignation of his post as the federal Secretary of Communications and Transport, and in doing so, left several projects awaiting approvals such as the licitations on various infrastructure projects including the construction of new sea ports in Lazaro Cardenas, Tuxpan, Veracruz, and the licitation for the Tulum airport. Juan Molinar Horcaditas is the new secretary taking on these pending responsibilities of this federal office and of the coordination of the pending projects awaiting resolutions.

From 2005 to 2006, international travel increased by 8%. In that same time period, the niche sector of luxury international travel increased by 10%: showing the presence of high-end travel destinations over traditional mainstream hotspots.

It’s an industry that made a name for itself in the middle of the century, with improvements in transportation complimented by increased curiosity for the foreign. Packaged deals offered all-inclusive packages to Central America, South America, Europe, and in some cases Africa, offering well-to-do Americans the chance to look, if for just a few days, into a world outside of the ever-bustling United States.

It was the inception of the iconic tour bus and the fanny pack-binoculars combination that characterized much of this movement. It was the glitches of drinking bad water and eating bad lettuce which acted as sacrificial reminders that a comfort bubble had been breached.

Today, the travel industry seems to be reinventing itself again. Beyond the trend of luxury tourism are new facets of ultra-luxury tourism such as in Tulum, Mexico where several super-high-end boutique hotels cater to travelers who are searching for a vacation beyond the Marriot or a Ritz. Part of the allure of these hotels is the intimate customer service, the feeling that you’re a guest in someone’s home, albeit a very nice home.

Many hotels in the Tulum region of Mexico, on the famed Mayan Riviera are catering not only to celebrities anymore but common folk who are searching for supreme levels of service and quality in their vacation accommodations. Guests visit Tulum to get away from the traditional boom spots of Cancun and Acapulco, looking not for mainstream restaurants or generic hotels but something different and new. Many Tulum hotels are now featuring various lifestyle activities such as yoga, fitness, and on-site dieticians.

It’s a trend that appears to be increasing in popularity: catering years ago to baby boomers and now portions of Generation X who, with cash in their pockets and depressing economic scenarios at home, are looking to get away somewhere special. With its white sand beaches and turquoise blue waters, Tulum embodies any dreamy Caribbean getaway from postcards or movies: though not without significant development and progress thanks to hefty tourism growth. And with the coming years, the international travel scene appears to be evolving just as fast.

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2009 is promising to be the year of “shifting of capitals” and readjustments of investment portfolios for many people throughout North America. The traditional investments into assets such as stocks, mutual funds and real estate throughout various regions of North America have been going through a decline or stagnate growth period in the past several months. People are being forced to venture or think outside of the box for returns that they experienced at the beginning of this decade.

Mexico real estate changes …safer Factors of promise for growth Tulum Land and property investments in Mexico….promise of growth

With these changes both in the North American traditional investment options and the improved Mexico real estate environment, there is a steady increase of demand brewing south of the border.

Real estate in Mexico as an investment option has changed drastically over the past decade. The risks of doing business in Mexico were quite strong versus the expected return. You have heard the stories though, in spite of these higher risks, various individual investors have invested into waterfront properties or projects and have made mind boggling returns within a few short years. There have also been those stories of people who mismanaged their risks, and these investors have lost money and or are still trying to recuperate. In the past various years, the Mexico real estate market has seen the introduction of various new tools which have helped tremendously the real estate investment environment. Title insurance companies have begun to offer tools that help investigate and manage property investments throughout various regions of Mexico. Escrow accounts have also become accessible to the security of both the buyers and sellers for their property transactions. Traditional methods in the management of deposits and earnest money involved transferring such funds into an agencies bank account or even more riskier, direct into the sellers account. With the recent introduction of third party escrow accounts, both buyers and sellers have more transparent visibility and management of the funds during the negotiation, drafting, and the reviewing of the contracts. The real estate market brokering services in Mexico has also seen considerable improvement in regards to the training and the regulation process. The AMPI organization has been working arduously on introducing a nationwide licensing process for realtors to obtain a professional license and degree to exercise activities in the industry. This program has seen great advancement on the federal level with the first exam being applied in the fall of 2008. Courses on the real estate operations and several focusing on transactions within the restricted zone are continuously being offered and applied throughout many cities in Mexico. All of which improves the overall knowledge, services offered, and safety to new buyers and investors into the Mexican market.

What are some of the factors that bring and attract seasoned real estate investors to a region, or even to a country to purchase properties? There are thousands of formulas or strategies involved in investing into real estate as many a reader knows. But due to the many factors of influence involved in determining value on a piece of property, a particular formula’s probability of success not only depends on the regional indicators, but also depends on maintaining a constant on the economical environment. In the past several years, it is obvious that the world economical data is fluctuating and adjusting in record quantities. So where do the experts advise to reinvest capital or where to buy real estate? When speaking or reading the notes of many of the successful real estate experts you will soon discover a few common factors that many always include into their calculations when acquiring or investing into properties. A couple of these include:

what is the projected population growth what is the quality of life what land is available and has building accessibility.

These indicators or factors are not the only items that are reviewed by successful land investors, but these are normally part of the questions to be investigated before pulling a trigger.



The Mexico real estate market is identified as one of the countries with strongest potential of growth and returns. Several regions have been experiencing booms driven by the foreign buyers and other regions are driven by the increase in their own internal demand for housing. There are various pockets throughout the country whose regional factors project high future demand and very interesting returns. This month we have identified one area on the Mexican Caribbean coastline whose factors project a strong prospect for high growth. Tulum Mexico . A small Mexican Caribbean Village with a population of approximately 15,000 people has projected growth rates estimated to reach double digits and possibly surpass the extraordinary growth record of its neighboring sister city of Playa del Carmen. This is causing the land for sale in Tulum to increase in demand which has put a pressure on the city to create good urban planning for better protection of the environment and to improve the living atmosphere of the community. The city has responded well and has maintained density figures throughout the future city to some of the lowest restrictions of the entire Riviera Maya coastline. The main draw to the cities of Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel cities have been the Caribbean beachfront activities and life style. Tulum is not expected to differ from these past urban growth models and have based their predictions for future growth and urban plans for development by studying closely the history of their neighbors successes and failures. Protection of the environment and low density is the main message being communicated by the city planners which coincides with the request from the market. People are more “green urbanism” conscious and are looking to live and retire within communities that maintain a short term and long term plan of sustaining the environment areas in their living areas. Tulum has a unique beachfront urban community plan given that the present village growth has occurred along highway 307, which is approximately 2 kilometers from the beaches. The beachfront road leading to the north end of the village is national park land where the Tulum ruins exist. On the south part of the beach road various ecological friendly hotels dot the coastline as you drive south into the Sian Kaan Biosphere park. These small boutique hotels operate with solar, wind, and alternative generating sources for their energy consumption needs. The unique location of the national parks and Biospheres in relation to the beachfront areas has created an interesting situation on the supply of the land available for future housing. As the most sought out real estate properties include beachfront or ocean view residences, and these options are already protected by the government from development, new areas of demand as near to the beach have begun to emerge.

With the traditional investment markets and assets experiencing depressed returns in the past several years, many people are looking towards alternative areas to park their capital. Mexico has emerged as a very viable option that several years ago would have been too risky versus the expected returns. But in the past 10 years the business atmosphere, the progress and introduction of new regulations and real estate tools have made the risks much more administrable for investors. Various real estate experts have applied their knowledge and formulas in Mexico’s markets quite successfully but still, a close eye on ALL factors both regional and nationally in order to increase the probabilities of a successful investment is always recommended. There are various pockets throughout Mexico whose factors all point to strong favorable potential for future growth and one of these includes the small beachfront village of Tulum, Mexico. We suggest that if you are looking for a Mexico investment alternative, you include Tulum as one region for further investigation.

One of the industries that effect the Tulum real estate market most significantly is the hotel and tourism industry. In matter of fact, the entire Mexico real estate market is efected directly or indirectly to the activities of the tourist trade. In less than 6 years, it is expected that tourism will become Mexico’s number one source of revenue for the entire country. So I thought it would be a good idea to post this interesting interview.

Hotel Association of Tulum President.

How do you consider that the touristic conditions can improve here in this region, what steps are being taken?

We have joined together, created a block to inform the associates and to take decisions, we are working closely with the city and the state to improve the situation with our tourist destination.

We have been effected tremendously by the lower visitors and we consider that the situation will begin to stabilize by the winter months.

Our organization is meeting with different departments who has in their hands the money of Mexicans, to see which relief packages or stimulus programs will be given to the businesses, in order to save the working positions and to protect the working class from the reductions in the work forces.

We have created an alliance with Chanal 30 of Tulum along with AIM Sports and Caribedicion; which are two important channels; one in Mexico about sports that is transmitted in the north, center, and south America. We are preparing to pass a series of spots which will be exhibited in different hours within the programing of these channels. The Tulum tourism is not a large volume rather a small quantity, and we are visited more by those people who wish to get in touch with nature and the culture.

We are confident that Tulum living will recuperate much quicker than many other part of the Riviera Maya. We have proposed to convert Tulum as its own proper product. Although we also participate with the Trust called the Riviera Maya, whose group we have worked with in order to fortify the image of the region and of this destination.

We have taken steps to strengthen ourselves and to bring new markets to Tulum Real Estate, and we realize that we have a very important product in our hands, a product that we will defend. We are aware that this destination sells itself and with a little help, we hope that very soon we will return to take up the same rhythm of tourists.

What are the city and state participation of the governor of the stage?

Everyone here has seen that Tulum is a different destination compared to the others, we have created a commitment with ourselves and with our Tulum, for said reason the manner we have discovered is necessary to participate as a team, as a proven strategy that can impulse whatever project as long as the people who participate have a vision. We are aware that businesses give fruit in the future and in the long run. Like my father always said, “why cut the green ones if the ripe ones fall by themselves”

What will you tell the businesses that have an interest on Tulum?

That they should take a look at Tulum, That they should view us with a capability of growth and that they see Tulum as a model place, the pride of Mexico, and those who have visited us, see an example of growth. I believe we can accomplish this with the participation of everyone. We are all Mexican and we should care for Tulum, each of us investing our grain of salt, finding a common project, walking proudly, and realizing tasks correctly. The people who will judge us will be our grandchildren, defining if we did the things good or bad

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The Cancun real estate area is the focal point of an ever stronger network of tourist destinations throughout the Yucatan Peninsula, and those living in Cancun always enjoy the benefit of easy travel to various nearby colonial cities, world-renowned pyramid sites, eco-parks, and other tourist destinations. Plans are underway to make transportation from the Cancun real estate area to various key destinations easier and faster. There are currently plans awaiting approval for the construction of two new branches from the Merida-Cancun highway, and a new expressway.

Mayab, the concessioner for the Merida-Cancun highway, has plans for this year which include the construction of 115 miles of new highways in four tourist areas. The company has requested the rights from the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) to construct and administrate the following segments: El Tintal to Playa del Carmen, with an expressway to Playa del Carmen, Airport to Punta Sam and El Tintal to El Cedral.

Francisco Rubio Serna, chief of SCT-Yucatan, reported that the company has completed studies for the surveying and pre-planning of overpasses and a pre-evaluation of land ownership. The company is awaiting the approval of the SCT’s General Authority of Highways to commence work. Engineer Serna Rubio said the El Tintal-Playa del Carmen branch would start at just past kilometer 216 of the Cancun-Merida expressway and that it would be 47 kilometers long and connect with a 25 kilometer-long expressway.

This expressway will allow drivers traveling from the Cancun real estate area to Tulum to avoid hitting traffic and loosing time in Playa del Carmen. At the same time, with the existence of this branch, those traveling to Playa del Carmen would save an hour. Instead of spending three and half to four hours traveling along the Chemax-Coba-Tulum-Playa del Carmen route, the trip would be two to three hours and it would be less tiring.

Vacation in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2007). I received a couple of emails about the music so here we go: the first song is Coldplay’S Clocks, but remixed by Cuban musicians from the Buena Vista Socia Club. The second one is a cover of David Bowie, adapted into Portuguese and performed by Seu Jorge for the soundtrack of Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Tulum ruins, mayan archaeological site at riviera maya coast, only one ruins on the coast . cabins parks and natural park in Tulum, long stretched, white sand beach, surrounded by gorgeous nature and the sparkling Caribbean Sea