Cancún, QRoo.- Quintana Roo will start the year with a series of new tourism charges considered in the 2025 fiscal package both the state government and the federation.
These are both increases and new charges for rights. One of them is the 100% increase for the entry to protected natural areas.
Thus, starting in 2025, entry to the Tulum National Park, for example, whose current cost is 61 pesos, would increase to 122; the Sian Ka’an reserve, which currently has a price of 100 pesos, would charge 200. Visiting the Isla Contoy National Park will go from 65 to 130 pesos and in the case of Banco Chinchorro, in the south of the entity, it would cost more than 650 pesos entry per person.
To this must be added the increase planned by the government of Quintana Roo for entrance to archaeological sitesprovided for in the reform of the State Rights Law, in addition to the fee charged by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
The charge approved to apply from 2025 ranges from .83 UMA, equivalent to 90 pesos, in the case of the vestiges of Dzibanché, to 4.25 UMA, that is, 432 pesos for entering sites such as Kohunlich, Ichkabal, Muyil , Tulum, Xel-há, Xcaret or San Miguelito.
These 432 pesos are the expected rate for international tourists, since for nationals the charge will be 1.50 UMA, in those same places, that is, 162 pesos.
Dolphinariums
Starting in May 2025, the charge of 50 pesos per person for swimming with animals found in artificial spaces such as dolphinariums will be applied, although this amount will not be paid by the people of Quintana Roo, but rather by tourism, since 40% will be allocated to the creation of the Fund for the Protection of Marine Species.
According to forecasts, the state government will collect 107 million pesos annually for this concept.
Ports
In addition to this, also starting in 2025 the state government will charge 5 pesos to cruise tourists who visit the state’s ports, after lobbying this amount with the shipping companies, long before the federal fee for Non-Resident Rights of $42 which the federation will also begin to collect starting next January 1 in all cruise ports in the country.
This charge will be distributed between Mahahual and Cozumel, according to the arrival of the cruises. The objective is to improve port infrastructure and security. The money raised will go to two trusts, one of 98 million for Cozumel and another of 37 million for Othón P. Blanco.
The charge applies to each tourist, but the crew is exempt. Payment is made upon arrival in Quintana Roo, regardless of whether the cruise visits other ports.
Some shipping companies have expressed their concern about this charge and have asked the government of Quintana Roo to postpone it, because although they agreed on it since 2023 with the state government, they did not count on the DNR payment of up to $42 that the federal government announced just in October of this same year.
