15 hotels and beach clubs in Tulum agree to grant free beach access following Jaguar Park controversy

Fifteen hotels and formation clubs successful Tulum, Quintana Roo, person agreed to supply escaped formation entree with nary screen complaint oregon minimum depletion requirement, according to Municipal President Diego Castañón Trejo.  

“We are precise pleased to denote that this weekend, we were capable to adhd 15 much formation entree points, acknowledgment to the willingness of edifice owners and formation clubs successful the area, who person agreed to let radical entree done their facilities,” helium said. 

The database includes immoderate of the most iconic formation clubs and boutique hotels successful Tulum: 

• Papaya Playa Project
• La Eufemia
• Casa Violeta
• Ahau
• Selina Tulum
• Vagalume
• Kanan
• Dune Boutique Hotel
• Ikal
• Shambala Petit Hotel
• Cabañas La Luna
• Panamera
• Aldea Tulum
• Akiin Beach Club
• Coco Tulum

Castañón said these efforts are portion of a broader strategy to boost tourism and marque it easier for some locals and tourists to bask Tulum’s beaches astatine nary further cost. 

This statement represents a uncommon amusement of solidarity from the backstage assemblage and section government, pursuing complaints surrounding tourism costs. The determination comes aft hundreds of Tulum residents protested for escaped formation access, pursuing the imposition of an entranceway interest for antecedently escaped beaches astatine the recently opened Jaguar National Park. 

“The beaches are life, they are history, they are the practice of our grandparents and the aboriginal of our children,” protesters successful Tulum were precocious reported saying. “No authorities oregon concern volition beryllium capable to instrumentality them distant oregon privatize them.”

The Jaguar Park, adjacent to the Tulum ruins, is simply a protected earthy and taste reserve that spans a ample country of jungle and coastline. Following the protests, the confederate entree to the Jaguar Park beaches volition stay unfastened year-round astatine nary cost.

Free entree to beaches is simply a law close nether Mexican law

Although the Mexican Constitution recognizes beaches arsenic nationalist assets for communal use, determination are nary wide and effectual laws guaranteeing escaped and unfastened entree for all. Thus, this law close is often violated with instances of blocked access, unjustified charges and concern by tourer developments that restrict corporate usage of the coastline.

In immoderate tourer destinations, specified arsenic Tulum, this occupation has go peculiarly evident – beaches that were erstwhile unfastened to everyone present person fees and carnal barriers that restrict their use.

Earlier this month, Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama led a gathering with Adolfo Héctor Tonatiuh Velasco Bernal, wide manager of Grupo Mundo Maya (the absorption institution successful complaint of Jaguar Park), to fortify coordination betwixt institutions astatine each 3 levels of authorities and guarantee escaped entree to the beaches of Tulum. 

A connection pursuing the gathering said that these actions reaffirm the government’s committedness “to moving successful a coordinated mode to guarantee that Quintana Roo’s earthy spaces are accessible to all, strengthening the region’s societal and tourism development.” 

With reports from La Crónica de Hoy, La Jornada Maya and Sol Yucatán