tulum.rsrch
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Tulum the enclave is defined distinctly by its culture. A largely expatriate and ecotourist culture focused on image. That culture has spatialized and developed the enclave. The airport, Tren Maya, hotels, resorts, luxury housing, clubs, beach bars, and restaurants all constitute a discontinuous boundary; the boundary of the enclave In the interstitial space between that boundary, there is the in-between which constitutes the resources which the enclave relies on. Namely, the ecological beauty of the Riviera Maya and the Mexican workforce who wait tables, construct hotels, and clean houses. The enclave is then in a binary relationship with the in-between. As the enclave grows the in-between shrinks. However, this cyclical siphon has an expiration date: when the Riviera Maya is too polluted to support tourism and migrant workers have all been pushed out to increasingly larger peripheries.