Officials say the businesses don't have permission to operate in the protected area near the Tulum Ruins.
Inspectors and soldiers arrived Monday to post closed signs. They say they will be back on Friday to permanently close the businesses and begin clearing out guests.
The closures were officially announced Wednesday.
Hotel owners say their papers are in order and the government can't shut them down.
Federal environmental prosecutor Patricio Patron says the hotels could eventually be demolished if the owners can't prove their legal right to the land. But he says that will take a year or more.
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Having worked as an Archaeologist at the Tulum ruins I can say that the Mexican government is right to close those 'hotels' because the 'tourists' from those hotels were always trampling trough the site and touching everything ...
They especially loved to have their photo made with them touching - literally touching history - a mural that was behind a wooden portcullis made of timbers the diameter of a telephone pole which they would squeeze around to stand grinning their shit-eating grins with hands on the fragile mural despite the sign beside the mural (in 16 different languages no less) telling them not to touch the mural and that the Federales will shoot them if they do. Many a tourist doesn't know how close they came to having a third eye for their stupidity.
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