Cancun International Airport (IATA: CUN, ICAO: MMUN) is located in Cancún, Quintana Roo, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. It is Mexico's second busiest airport, after Mexico City International Airport in Mexico City. In 2006, the airport handled 9,728,149 passengers. In 2007, that number grew to 11,340,027 passengers, setting a new record. It is currently the 4th busiest airport in Latin America, just behind Mexico City, and the two main airports in São Paulo. Cancun Airport is expected to reach 28 million passengers by 2017, getting to the second position in Latin America, behind Mexico City. A second runway is currently under construction.

Cancun International Airport has Three terminals: Terminal 1 (FBO) serves private aircraft. Terminal 2 serves charters and many national and international scheduled flights. The new Terminal 3 handles the major international airlines. A free shuttle runs frequently between the terminals.

In Cancun there are about 140 hotels with 24,000 rooms and 380 restaurants. Four million visitors arrive each year in an average of 190 flights daily. The hotel zone is one of the most exclusive internationally, with upmarket restaurants, bars, and the like which have catered for quite a number of the rich and famous. The hotel zone tends to be rather expensive as it is aimed at visitors and relies on the all inclusive hotels to keep them all in this area allowing prices to soar. Downtown is home to less expensive places to shop like Walmart, Comercial Mexicana and Soriana, not to mention several flea markets like the one in the hotel zone.