MND Local: Los Cabos’ popularity, a new boutique hotel and a resort and retail brand sleepwear collaboration

The yearly figures for 2025 released by Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico (GAP), which operates not lone Los Cabos International Airport but 11 others successful Mexico and 2 successful Jamaica, should not beryllium confused with authoritative tourism numbers. 

People alert into Los Cabos for respective reasons. One of which is that they oregon household members unrecorded present — the 2020 colonisation was 351,000 and it has doubtless climbed since — and different is business. That said, these figures are a beardown indicator of tourism, since the immense bulk of planetary visitors, and galore home travelers, alert successful for that precise reason. 

GAP reports 2025 airdrome postulation numbers, including a flimsy emergence for Los Cabos

Los Cabos International Airport isn’t arsenic engaged arsenic those successful Guadalajara and Tijuana, but it did spot a batch of postulation successful 2025. (GAP)

In 2025, implicit 7.5 cardinal passengers were welcomed astatine Los Cabos International Airport; 7,529,900, to beryllium exact, an summation of lone 0.6% implicit 2024. This mild maturation was besides seen successful home passengers, which roseate somewhat by 0.4% to 2,841,600 successful 2025. International passengers, a stronger harbinger of tourism strength, roseate by 0.7%, to 4,688,300. That means for the year, planetary passengers accounted for 62% of airdrome traffic, home passengers for 38%.

Los Cabos International Airport was the 3rd busiest among GAP airports successful 2025, down those successful Guadalajara and Tijuana, which saw implicit 18 cardinal and 12 cardinal terminal passengers, respectively. Overall, it was the sixth busiest successful Mexico, trailing besides airports successful Mexico City, Cancún and Monterrey.

It should beryllium noted that cruise vessel passengers are seldom included successful tourism numbers, simply due to the fact that they seldom enactment overnight. Still, done November 2025, Cabo San Lucas had received implicit 900,000 cruise vessel visitors, already a grounds number, and importantly much than the 625,000 positive who visited during the aforesaid play successful 2024.

Which is to accidental that Los Cabos’ popularity whitethorn person stabilized from the explosive maturation seen earlier this decennary pursuing the betterment from pandemic years of 2020-2021, but it’s inactive robust.

Kadún opens successful Cabo San Lucas

Los Cabos hotels and resorts person been built astatine specified a brisk gait successful caller years that scarcely has 1 opened that different appears close connected its heels. The Park Hyatt Cabo del Sol, for example, premiered connected Dec. 15, 2025, but remained the newest edifice successful Los Cabos for lone a fewer weeks earlier an adjacent newer spot opened its doors.

That was Kadún, a 110-room boutique edifice that officially began welcoming guests successful aboriginal January. Operated by the Macías family-owned hospitality radical Mexico Grand Hotels, whose section postulation of properties includes Marina Fiesta and Hacienda Encantada, Kadún offers respective attractions to travelers, among them its convenient downtown Cabo San Lucas location— a abbreviated locomotion from Médano Beach and the Cabo San Lucas Marina — and its trendy rooftop swimming pool.

Boutique edifice Kadún successful Cabo San Lucas is the newest edifice to unfastened successful Los Cabos. (Mexico Grand Hotels)

It’s besides notable for its afloat clasp of section civilization and cuisine. “With Kadún, our extremity was to make a edifice that doesn’t conscionable beryllium successful Cabo, but genuinely belongs to Cabo,” said Gabriel Ibarra Macías, caput of selling and income for Mexico Grand Hotels. “Everything from the plan to the programming was crafted to grant the traditions, artistry and earthy quality of Baja California Sur. We wanted Kadún to consciousness similar a gateway into the authentic tone of the region.”

In short, it’s a bully summation to the Cabo San Lucas edifice scene, bringing the full fig of rooms successful the Land’s End metropolis to implicit 9,600. But, of course, Kadún volition stay the newest for only a abbreviated time.

Viceroy collaborates with sleepwear marque Petite Plume connected caller collection

San José del Cabo, meanwhile, has lone astir one-third arsenic galore edifice rooms (3,306) arsenic Cabo San Lucas, but among these are immoderate of the astir blase and luxurious successful Los Cabos. 

Viceroy Los Cabos, successful San José del Cabo’s Zona Hotelera, is among the astir visually striking of these upscale resorts — the crushed it was chosen arsenic a determination for manager Alejandro Iñárritu’s 2022 film, “Bardo.” After making its people successful hospitality and cinema, the edifice is present being recognized for its fashion, acknowledgment to a caller collaboration with sleepwear marque Petite Plume. 

The limited-edition Discovery Stripe Collection, which includes mulberry silk pajamas and oculus masks for women, is presently disposable to beryllium worn by guests astatine Viceroy Los Cabos, and whitethorn beryllium purchased online oregon successful the onsite acquisition shops. The pajamas marque a bully acquisition for Valentine’s Day, and correspond not conscionable the luxurious tone of Viceroy Los Cabos, but besides its location. The stripe colors successful the PJs are a motion to prime properties nether the Viceroy Hotels and Resorts banner, with the rust colored stripes inspired by the Baja desert.

The collaboration, it should beryllium noted, besides represents Viceroy’s committedness to making each facet of a enactment astatine its resorts a peculiar acquisition … including sleep. “At Viceroy, remainder is simply a ritual,” affirms a caller property release. “It is woven into each acquisition we create. This collaboration with Petite Plume allowed america to springiness signifier to that doctrine — presenting beautifully made keepsakes that bespeak our consciousness of find and the joyousness of slow, intentional moments.”

A enactment of the Discovery Stripe Collection of sleepwear is disposable to guests astatine Viceroy Los Cabos. (Viceroy Hotels & Resorts)

This is not the archetypal manner collaboration for Viceroy Los Cabos, which boasted a summer beachwear collab with Onia conscionable past year. Nor is Viceroy the lone luxury edifice successful Los Cabos to dip its toes successful the manner waters. One&Only Palmilla pioneered the inclination successful 2016 via its concern with big-wave surfing fable Laird Hamilton connected curated apparel for guests. Other Los Cabos luxury resorts person since followed with their ain manner collabs, including Four Seasons Resort and Residences Los Cabos astatine Costa Palmas with Caralarga, and Las Ventanas al Paraíso with Nick Fouquet, Mi Golondrina and Weezie.

Chris Sands is the erstwhile Cabo San Lucas section adept for the USA Today question website 10 Best and writer of Fodor’s Los Cabos question guidebook. He’s besides a contributor to galore websites and publications, including Tasting Table, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Forbes Travel Guide, Porthole Cruise, Cabo Living and Mexico News Daily.