Felipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport opened in December 2023 as Mexico's first public-private partnership terminal built specifically to reduce congestion at Cancún. Located 115 kilometres south of Cancún and twenty-two kilometres from Tulum's hotel zone, the facility processes three million passengers annually and serves the Riviera Maya corridor with fourteen daily international arrivals. The airport was named for the Yucatecan governor and indigenous rights advocate who governed Quintana Roo during the 1920s, and its two-gate terminal was designed to handle narrow-body jets on flights from Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and seasonal European charters. Despite its proximity to Tulum, the airport lies inland on Federal Highway 307, requiring ground transport to reach the beachfront hotel zone or the clusters of short-term rentals scattered between Tulum Pueblo and the coastal archaeological zone. The thirty-minute drive from the terminal to central Tulum passes ejido farmland, limestone scrub forest, and roadside fruit stands before reaching the town's main intersection at Avenida Cobá and Highway 307. Most vacation rentals sit either in the pueblo's grid of residential streets or along the six-kilometre Zona Hotelera, a narrow strip between the jungle and the Caribbean where pavement gives way to packed sand and speed limits drop to twenty kilometres per hour. Airbnb listings in Tulum range from pueblo apartments fifteen minutes inland to beachfront casitas accessible only by bicycle or golf cart, and the infrastructure challenges of the coastal zone—intermittent electricity, limited cellular coverage, and seasonal road flooding—mean that pre-arranged tulum airport transfer to airbnb services are often the most reliable arrival option. Ride-hailing apps operate sporadically in the region, and taxi queues at the terminal rarely serve destinations beyond the main hotel properties. Transfer services from Felipe Carrillo Puerto include shared shuttles that depart on fixed schedules and stop at multiple properties, private sedans that take the most direct route to a single address, and luxury SUVs equipped with child seats and coolers for families. Shared shuttles typically cost thirty to forty-five dollars per person and run every two hours, while private vehicles start at eighty dollars for up to four passengers and offer door-to-door service with flexible departure windows. Electric vehicle transfers launched in 2024 as an alternative to diesel vans, using Tesla Model X and Model Y fleets that recharge at the airport's solar-canopied lot. The road from the terminal to the coast is unlit after sunset, and drivers familiar with the pueblo's unmarked turns and the beach zone's sandy access roads reduce arrival stress for first-time visitors navigating Tulum's non-grid layout.