Unless you're CMX3.5 or obtain a limited lodging license via zoning if its your primary.

My tenants get a per diem which covers their food and lodging expenses.

Mammoth Mountain is also scheduled to build an entire new village and multiple hotels at main lodge.

I would just avoid Mountain Lodge, it's an older development that was once vacation homes.

Look at the upside, lodging for up to 20 years with 3 years supervised probation and a 5 million dollar fine.

I believe this is partly because there are several large all-inclusive chain resorts in Playa featuring properties with 800+ rooms, whereas the hotels in Tulum’s hotel zone are boutique "eco-lodges" with a lower room density.

I thought I had read something in my local zoning laws regarding short term/transient lodging. https://clevelandtn.gov/Docume...Cleveland, TN zoning ordinance, APP0C-183 Land use: "Land use shall mean three broad categories of land use referred to in this ordinance: residential; non-residential; and vacant. 

If you do that, yes it is deductible - flight, lodging, meals, car rental.

my issue is with the lodging tax.

Those who have violated the law by not pulling permits or paying lodging taxes are being retroactively charged.