by Lacey Pfalz
Last updated: 9:45 AM ET, Fri August 16, 2024
Tulum International Airport may be only eight months old, but the airport has welcomed nearly 700,000 passengers, according to local authorities.
“In just eight months of activity, between December 2023 and July 2024, the Tulum Airport has handled almost 670,000 passengers in 5,200 air operations,” said Quintana Roo’s governor, Mara Lezama, which was reported on by Riviera Maya News. “What is striking is the progression of growth.”
In fact, March and July saw the greatest numbers of travelers visiting the state. In the beginning of March, the airport had welcomed just over 5,000 travelers since its opening. Yet by April, that number had grown to 53,000.
By July, the airport had welcomed over 88,000.
Last June, the airport’s Administrator General, Javier Diego Campillo, had expected around 700,000 travelers to enter the state through the airport in its first year. Now, the projections are predicting 1.3 to 1.4 million passengers to visit the airport.
Tulum International Airport opened in December 2023. It began operating international flights in late March 2024. Major American airlines like Spirit, United, American , Delta and others are all offering routes from the U.S. to the new airport, which is located in a popular tourist area in Riviera Maya.
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