Cancún and Riviera Maya dominate hotel construction in Mexico with over 90% of new rooms this year

Cancún and the Riviera Maya person established themselves arsenic the main drivers of Mexico’s edifice manufacture done 2025, starring the operation and opening of caller hotels and accommodations nationwide.

According to a caller study from commercialized existent property steadfast CBRE, Cancún and different areas of the Riviera Maya added 2,070 caller rooms betwixt January and May, accounting for 91% of the nationalist inventory. In different words, 9 retired of each 10 caller hotels that person opened successful Mexico this twelvemonth opened successful that region.

In the archetypal 5 months of the year, 2,280 caller edifice rooms were built successful Mexico. Of that total, 1,715 rooms (75%) opened successful Cancún portion 355 (16%) opened successful the Riviera Maya.

“These results amusement that, contempt existent challenges, Cancún and the Riviera Maya proceed to found themselves arsenic strategical destinations for edifice and tourism concern successful Mexico,” Christian Lega, vice president of hospitality astatine CBRE Mexico said.

Meanwhile, Andrés Martínez Reynoso, caput of the Quintana Roo Tourism Promotion Council (CPTQ), said the authorities is adjacent to matching Las Vegas successful fig of edifice rooms.

“We person much than 130,000 rooms. We are 20,000 rooms distant from reaching the edifice capableness of Las Vegas. With the caller hotels, the airdrome and the Maya Train, which volition link 3 planetary airports, we are facing a wholly antithetic change,” Martínez said.

After Cancún and the Riviera Maya, Riviera Nayarit comes adjacent successful the opening of caller rooms, with 140 (6%) betwixt January and May.

In the report, CBRE estimates that much than 3,900 caller rooms volition travel into cognition crossed Mexico during the 2nd fractional of 2025.

Trends successful the edifice and question industry

According to CBRE, concern successful resorts continues to beryllium the astir charismatic alternate for investors, arsenic increasing request has driven this benignant of improvement successful some established destinations and emerging markets similar Mexico.

“Mexico has established itself arsenic a cardinal destination, with aggregate luxury brands expanding their presence,” the study says.

Currently, Cancún, Riviera Maya and Los Cabos person much than 5,000 rooms nether construction, which could beryllium released to the marketplace betwixt 2025 and 2027.

As for edifice occupancy, the Tourism Ministry reported that the mean edifice occupancy complaint successful the 70 monitored tourer destinations was 58.7% betwixt January and April, with Cancún and Los Cabos starring the mode successful accomplishment of planetary tourists.

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