Tulum International Airport in Mexico Set to Open in December

Government officials in Mexico announced that the new airport project in Tulum would be completed by the end of the year.

According to Riviera Maya News, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa revealed the Felipe Carrillo Puerto Tulum International Airport project would be completed in December 2023.

President Lopez Obrador and Governor Lezama Espinosa made the announcement during a tour of the Tulum airport’s construction site.

“We are carrying out for the first time the evaluation of section 5 of the Maya Train where the Tulum Airport, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, is being built, a new marvel of civil-military engineering and the work of exceptional Mexican workers,” President Lopez Obrador said.

“In December it will be possible to fly to anywhere in Mexico and the world,” he continued.

Governor Lezama thanked the Secretary of National Defense for the work on the new airport and said the region’s more than 30 million passengers a year are anticipating the completion of the project by “December of this year.”

Last week, government officials in Quintana Roo announced that over a mile of anti-sargassum barriers would be installed along the beaches of Tulum. The region’s port authority revealed plans to install 2,618 linear meters (over 8,500 feet) of sargassum containment barrier.