Hotel investments continue to flow into Quintana Roo; a new project with nearly 1,000 rooms, called Hotel Terraesmeralda, is now in the works in Playa del Carmen.
The initial investment announced is nearly 100 million pesos, along with a 20-year environmental mitigation plan.
Construction is expected to begin no later than mid-2026 within the Punta Maroma complex on the Riviera Maya, 2.3 km from Federal Highway 307.
The property where the hotel is planned is the result of merging two lots, with a total area of 11.85 hectares and approximately 450 meters of beachfront overlooking Cozumel Island. The project includes the construction of 10 buildings housing a total of 954 hotel rooms, distributed among junior, executive, and presidential categories.
In addition to the guest rooms, the project includes a destination spa, event hall, gym, retail spaces, tennis courts, and a total of eight swimming pools for adults and children. It also plans the construction of 802 parking spaces, located at ground level, as well as various service and dining areas to accommodate the hotel’s capacity.
To proceed, the project requires a change in land use for 4.75 hectares of forest land, currently covered with secondary vegetation of semi-deciduous medium-height forest.
This is one of dozens of projects in the pipeline for the northern region of Quintana Roo, which, as of September of this year, has already reached nearly 138,000 throughout the state.
This number places Quintana Roo as the second most developed tourist destination in the world in terms of lodging infrastructure, second only to Las Vegas, according to Quintana Roo’s Secretary of Tourism, Bernardo Cueto Riestra.
Just this past July, the state had 135,961 hotel rooms, so in just two months that number jumped to 137,937, an increase of 1,976 units.
This represents a 10.8% growth since August 2022, as three years ago the state had 124,463 rooms. Since then, 13,474 new rooms have been built, primarily in the northern part of the state.
In other words, if this pace continues, the state could surpass 150,000 rooms in the next five years and reach the number of rooms in Las Vegas, according to forecasts from the State Tourism Secretariat.
In addition, the most recent report by CBRE indicates that 2,280 new hotel rooms opened across the country in the first half of the year, of which 1,715 (75%) are in Cancún, 355 (16%) in the Riviera Maya, and 140 (6%) in the Riviera Nayarit.
This means that Cancún and the Riviera Maya account for 91% of all new hotel rooms opened in the country in the first half of 2025.
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Source: sipse
