Non Inclusive

In the tourist corridor of the Riviera Maya, the accelerated development of Playa del Carmen makes it one of the cities with the highest population growth rate in the country. The excessive and unregulated expansion of the hotel infrastructure has had an impact on the destruction of the environment, affecting beaches, cenotes and mangroves. The hotel offer is mainly made up of foreign investment resorts. Tourists, attracted by the “all-inclusive” formula, are flocking to the resort where they are serviced by the local population.

With the idea of fulfilling the “Caribbean dream”, thousands of people move from Mexico’s poorest contiguous states as service providers and cheap labor for construction.

Far from tourist options and with less and less natural heritage publicly accessible, the migrants, now locals, live their daily lives in precarious neighborhoods and subdivisions of minimal housing on the periphery of the city.