Mexico seaweed season: ‘Extremely serious’ drop in tourism as smelly sargassum blankets tourist towns
- A record-breaking surge of brown, smelly seaweed is inundating Mexico's Caribbean coastline, leading to beach closures in premier tourist destinations and inflicting escalating economic damage on local hotels, restaurants, and shops.
- This unprecedented mass of sargassum, a brown seaweed that traverses the Atlantic in vast mats before ocean currents push it towards Caribbean shores each spring, has prompted the federal government to devise an emergency response plan.
- In the eastern state of Quintana Roo, a popular tourist hub renowned for its once-pristine beaches like Cancun and Playa del Carme
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- A record-breaking surge of brown, smelly seaweed is inundating Mexico's Caribbean coastline, leading to beach closures in premier tourist destinations and inflicting escalating economic damage on local hotels, restaurants, and shops.
- This unprecedented mass of sargassum, a brown seaweed that traverses the Atlantic in vast mats before ocean currents push it towards Caribbean shores each spring, has prompted the federal government to devise an emergency response plan.
- In the eastern state of Quintana Roo, a popular tourist hub renowned for its once-pristine beaches like Cancun and Playa del Carme
Sources: The Independent