Safety in mexico unico riviera maya full#
Now that tourists have returned in full force to all of the Riviera Maya, its long-festering problems are coming into focus. Government figures show that during the pandemic, excess mortality, or the number of deaths above what would have expected under “normal” conditions, has climbed above 667,000.īut as other resort areas enforced restrictions, Tulum, which markets its hippy chic spirituality, continued to party, and in November 2020, it hosted a five-day festival that became a coronavirus superspreader event. Mexico has confirmed more than 315,000 deaths from Covid-19 but experts believe the toll is much higher. Tourists often seemed to take the rules more lightly than most Mexicans, who were hit hard by the pandemic. Within Mexico, shutdowns varied according to state and even within Quintana Roo as the pandemic progressed, with limits on occupancy in hotels and restaurants and widespread use of masks indoors. The country imposed not a single restriction on entry by air - travelers, vaccinated or unvaccinated, could come in without testing for the coronavirus and faced no quarantines. The region, part of the state of Quintana Roo, quickly reopened after the first few months of the pandemic, as Mexico welcomed foreign tourists while much of the world stayed closed.
We don’t do drugs, we don’t deal drugs, we don’t stay out late - so we feel very safe.” He added: “We just don’t put ourselves in situations where we’re going to be in trouble. “It’s all like drug-related violence so it doesn’t affect us,” said Elizabeth Sedgemore, 50, of Seattle, who was walking in Puerto Morelos one recent noon looking for a restaurant with her husband, Gregory, 59. A killer-for-hire bought a day pass to an all-inclusive resort in Playa del Carmen to carry out a hit in a poolside snack bar.īut the spate of violent incidents along the country’s Riviera Maya, the strand of Caribbean beaches stretching 80 miles south of Cancún to the Mayan ruins of Tulum, over the past few months hasn’t seemed to scare off the vacationers who arrived by the millions last year to spend a pandemic holiday on the beach, dive the coral reefs or dance in boho bars. Gunmen battled on a beach near Puerto Morelos as tourists scrambled into a Hyatt hotel for cover. Two women were killed in the crossfire when rival gangs started shooting at a popular sidewalk restaurant in Tulum. The headlines out of Mexico have been jarring.
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