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...It aims to spur economic development in Mexico’s poorer south by connecting Cancún’s beach resorts with other areas but has been criticised for a lack of transparency, environmental damage and soaring costs...
...Maroma, on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, was for many of its near-30 years of existence the ne plus ultra of old-school Quintana Roo style....
...Sonu Shivdasani and Eva Malmstrom, founders of Six Senses Resorts, opened Soneva Fushi in 1995....
...Back when it was new, the Palm Beach Daily News judged it “the most attractive [hotel] in the resort community” with the “best buffet table in Palm Beach”, two accolades it will surely reclaim....
...– on Mexico’s Riviera Maya Tulum and canvas seem a boho marriage made in heaven; if there’s anywhere it feels right to have a beach holiday in a tent, it’s here....
...Paraíso Sisal, for instance, is a beachfront development in Sisal, one of the coast’s lesser-known resorts, which was recently awarded Pueblo Mágico (or “magical town”) status by the state of Yucatán....
...The Italian architect Matteo Thun, well known for the Vigilius Mountain Resort in the South Tyrol and the Waldhotel at the Swiss Burgenstock resort, has transformed a late 19th-century neo-renaissance building...
...A studio within walking distance of the beach sells for around $100,000....
...At the farthest end of the beach at Aberdaron we swam over peacock reefs of tiny stones, the dowry of the sea....
...As part of its economic stimulus package, the local government gave discounts for entry to the Maya Beach Water Park, which hosted an electronic music festival for more than 3,000 people....
...“I’ve had a number of conversations from beach resorts,” said one consultant who has held Zoom meetings with Hawaiian-shirted executives to the sound of waves crashing in the background....
...Hoteliers on the Riviera Maya, which stretches 120km from Puerto Morelos to Punta Allen, have lost an estimated $12m this year from cancellations related to sargassum, according to industry data....
...Barranco, a 19th-century summer resort in Lima overlooking the Pacific, has a growing cluster of artists’ studios and galleries....
...Phuket’s Maya Bay, where the Leonardo DiCaprio film The Beach was filmed, has been closed for four months to recover from tourism excesses and pollution....
...Daily visitors to Maya Bay, made famous by Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The Beach, have surged to nearly 5,000 — a jump local officials attribute mainly to Chinese tourists....
...Even early in a week in the fallow season between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we’d passed Robert Redford on the beach....
...The beach resort, 80 miles south of Cancún, on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, has become a bohemian hang-out for the fashion set, who inhale mescal margaritas and lobster ceviche in cabana-style lodges strung...
...Most beach scenes, including the one where Louisa tries scuba diving, were shot in and around the Hotel Barceló Formentor in the north-east....
...Hardly a corner of the calendar is now left untouched by art fairs, and next week the season gets under way with events in London, Geneva, Singapore, New York and Palm Beach, Florida....
...“Besides those that lost their right to travel outside the country won’t suffer,” she says, gesturing to the resort’s private beach and cypress trees....
...Now in the near distance an immense glaring white hotel, the Uxmal Resort Maya, looms above the tree canopy. “There’s a lovely view of the ruins from its rooftop pool,” I overheard a guide observe....
...Yet the credo was clear in a light-hearted slideshow at the beach bar, when the resort’s environment officer described the habits of skinks and whale sharks....
...With change a near certainty, let’s hope Holbox becomes something closer in spirit to Tulum, the boho beach resort at the southern end of the peninsula’s Caribbean coast, which has grown apace over the past...
...Though the city was once an afterthought of beach resort tourists, with a reputation for being desolate at night and overrun in summer, the dining – like Maltese wine – has been steadily improving, and new...
...Along the beach there are old watch towers, barracks and forgotten rolls of razor wire....
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