Tulum, Quintana Roo — The Tulum archaeological zone received 1,031,443 visitors in 2025, representing a 20% decline compared to the previous year and marking the most significant drop in the last decade.
According to data from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the site saw 213,000 fewer visitors last year compared to 2024, when the archaeological zone hosted 1.2 million people. The reported figure is the lowest since 2010, not counting 2020 and 2021, the years of coronavirus pandemic confinement.
Everything seems to indicate that the controversies experienced throughout the year took a toll on visitor numbers, as during 2025, INAH personnel demonstrated to denounce the alleged usurpation of functions by the Airport, Railway, Auxiliary Services and Related Services Group, Olmeca-Maya-Mexica (GAFSACOMM), administered by the Mexican armed forces, which began charging entry to Tulum National Park.
The outlook for the current year does not appear to improve, as the entry fee has doubled from 100 to 206 pesos, and the increase is replicated in the rest of the state’s archaeological zones.
In fact, the number of visitors to the 12 archaeological sites in Quintana Roo in 2025 was 1.6 million, also the lowest figure since 2010, the year in which only 1.6 million were recorded.
That is, the controversies, excessive charges, and the negative image that was spread about Tulum in 2025 set the destination back 15 years in terms of visitors to archaeological zones.
The decrease is much greater if compared not only with the previous year, but with 2018, when the Mayan ruins of Tulum attracted 2.1 million visitors, while the twelve archaeological zones in the state recorded 3.4 million.
Seven years later, Tulum receives less than half, while the total of Mayan ruins in the state has fallen in the same proportion.
Despite everything, during 2025 Tulum remained the third most visited archaeological zone in the country, only behind Chichén Itzá, which attracted 2.2 million, and Teotihuacán with 1.8 million. At the state level, the other most visited sites are Chacchoben with 237,039 visitors; Cobá with 191,815; and San Gervasio with 143,541.
Data
- 2010: Tulum: 992,964 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,678,992 visitors
- 2011: Tulum: 1,085,288 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,777,620 visitors
- 2012: Tulum: 1,199,312 visitors | 12 state zones: 2,007,955 visitors
- 2013: Tulum: 1,289,343 visitors | 12 state zones: 2,127,499 visitors
- 2014: Tulum: 1,391,542 visitors | 12 state zones: 2,225,193 visitors
- 2015: Tulum: 1,508,847 visitors | 12 state zones: 2,356,821 visitors
- 2016: Tulum: 1,773,929 visitors | 12 state zones: 2,825,672 visitors
- 2017: Tulum: 2,207,446 visitors | 12 state zones: 3,413,730 visitors
- 2018: Tulum: 2,189,536 visitors | 12 state zones: 3,471,489 visitors
- 2019: Tulum: 1,996,544 visitors | 12 state zones: 3,282,771 visitors
- 2020: Tulum: 624,431 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,001,736 visitors
- 2021: Tulum: 1,017,870 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,498,662 visitors
- 2022: Tulum: 1,405,140 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,895,754 visitors
- 2023: Tulum: 1,300,964 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,920,698 visitors
- 2024: Tulum: 1,245,294 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,853,829 visitors
- 2025: Tulum: 1,031,443 visitors | 12 state zones: 1,678,992 visitors
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