Playa del Carmen, known colloquially as 'Playa', is a resort city located along the Caribbean Sea in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is part of the municipality of Solidaridad. As of 2020, the city's population was just over 300,000 people during 2020, a small yet thriving portion of which are foreign immigrants.
Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo
Various palm trees on white sand beach, Playa del Carmen
View from the ferry dock
Turquoise waters off of Playa del Carmen
A resort town, resort city or resort destination is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual resorts in the surrounding area. Sometimes the term resort town is used simply for a locale popular among tourists. One task force in British Columbia used the definition of an incorporated or unincorporated contiguous area where the ratio of transient rooms, measured in bed units, is greater than 60% of the permanent population.
Heiligendamm in Germany, established in 1793, the oldest seaside resort in continental Europe
Aerial view of the Cancún island, from the top of the Torre Escénicain, May 2008
Railway station in Tatranská Lomnica ski resort, Slovakia
A comic drawn for a newspaper in a resort area; it depicts elderly local residents with limited income who are used to visiting attractions nearby.