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UGM will evaluate plan to solve limited access to Machu PicchuLivinginPeru.com
Regional director of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Carlos Zuñiga reported news of the meeting. Zuñiga told Andina news agency that the proposed plan would address the capacity restrictions, which would be increased to 5,000 daily visits in the long term. The plan would also address the protection and sustainable development of tourism in the area. "The Master Plan for Machu Picchu made in 2005 gave the magic number of 2,500 tourists per day, but today everything has changed, there are more trains arriving, the demand of visitors increased and will continue to increase, so we have to see other options," he said. He stressed that the plan would not affect the conservation of the site, which would provide schedules for visits as well as alternative routes to visit the site. The regional head of Cusco, Jorge Tito Acurio, district mayor of Machu Picchu, Oscar Valencia, and the Ministry of Culture, among other institutions, chair the UGM. |
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130 pct increase in tourists visiting Machu Picchu, PeruLivinginPeru.com
"Between January and April of this year, 244,061 tourists visited Machu Picchu which represented an annual growth rate of 129.1 percent," they said, in an article in Andina. Of the total tourists, 75.5 percent were foreigners. Maximixe noted that these figures could have been even if the social conflicts in Puno hadn’t occurred. They noted that the conflict generated the cancellation of several tours in the country. Other tourist attractions that saw an increase in the flow of visitors were the National Reserve of Paracas, Ica, with 42.4 percent growth and 65.921 visitors, and the Belen Monument Complex in Cajamarca with an increase of 35.5 percent. Between 2005 and 2010, the tourist site that recorded the most dynamic growth in the number of visitors was the city of Caral, located north of Lima. Caral had 24.7 per cent growth. The archeological sites of Kuelap in the Amazon saw 15.3 percent growth, Moray Cusco 15 percent, Kotosh Huánuco 14.4 percent, the Colca Valley in Arequipa 11.7 percent and the Quistococha Resort in Loreto had a 11.7 percent increase in the amount of visitors. Maximixe said that "while the amount of visitors to these places is less than number who go to Machu Picchu, it is a remarkable growth, which will be even greater when you create the appropriate infrastructure and couple it with the network of services that the business requires.” |
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12 million passengers expected at Lima’s airport, this yearLivinginPeru.com
"Lima’s airport leads passenger traffic in the country. Last year we had more than 11 million passengers, this year we could reach 12 million," he said. He said other airports with high passenger traffic were Cusco, Iquitos (Loreto), Arequipa, Puerto Maldonado (Madre de Dios), Piura and Trujillo (La Libertad). "At the Jorge Chavez airport we made approximately 400 daily operations, taking into account takeoffs and landings, however, some days we exceed that number by a lot," he told Andina news agency. He emphasized that during the last five years, airport operations increased by nearly 70 percent nationwide, driven by the expansion of new routes and the entry of new airlines. "Moreover, economic growth has been central to the expansion of this sector, since many people who previously traveled by bus in recent years have preferred to go by plane. This is also because there are now better prices when buying airline tickets," he said. He said that in 2005 the Piura airport performed two to three operations a day, and 11 operations a day in 2011. A decade ago, the Cusco airport had eight to ten daily flights, now it serves 26 flights a day. "At that time, the Cusco airport had half a million passengers, currently they have 1.7 million a year," he added. Vallejo projected that the airport passenger traffic would continue at a growth rate of seven percent annually over the next five years. "I believe we should get to about 15 or 16 million passengers without any problems by 2016," he said. He stressed that building the second runway at Jorge Chavez airport would alleviate the increased traffic in the airport’s terminal. |
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Machu Picchu, Inca Trail can receive over 5400 visitors per dayAndina
The carrying capacity of Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail is the maximum number of people who can visit the site at the same time, without causing significant damage or destruction of natural cultural monument or a reduction of unacceptable quality of visitor satisfaction. “After a hard technical work we have concluded that Machu Picchu can receive up to 2 million visitors each year,” said Peru's Deputy Tourism Minister Mara Seminario. However, Seminario noted that a proper management is required to implement the new capacity, and this will allow easing the flow and arrange the time of visits, as well as improving the infrastructure and implement a series of improvements. The deputy minister added that the survey methodology carried out by consulting firm Candes and financed by World Bank’s Vilcanota project shows that the Effective Carrying Capacity, that is, the maximum number of visits that a monument can have at a specific moment, is 2200 visitors. |
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Authorities open new path in Machu PicchuLivinginPeru.com
According to an article published in Andina, the new path to Machu Picchu would be under evaluation for 15 days and would allow visitors to see Inca walls, the natural landscape and Huayna Picchu. This initiative benefited tourists who were prevented from entering early on Monday morning, because they had not been able to purchase tickets. The tourists had blocked off roads in protest. The press announcement came after a meeting between Cusco’s Regional Director of Culture, Juan Julio Garcia Rivas, Regional Director of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Carlos Zuniga, and Peggy Morante, a representitive of Iperú. Garcia explained that the route will be open from 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, and will allow an additional 400 tourists to enter per day. He noted that if in 15 days there could be guarantees that the new area wouldn’t lead to a collapse, it could become a permanent pathway. A decision regarding the paths future will depend on the Management Unit of Machu Picchu (UGM). |
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Tourists take over bridge, prevent access to Machu PicchuLivinginPeru.com
They were not sold tickets because the site has a capacity of 2,500 visitors per day, in accordance with UNESCO guidelines. Information provided by the tour guide Victor Yanez, and quoted by local radio RPP, noted that the buses that transport travelers to the area are stranded because the protesters were standing on the bridge and would not allow the buses to go through. This morning, dozens of tourists, warned that if they were not given a solution they would take radical measures, including a march to the archaeological site to enter by force, or a blockage of the main road leading to the ruins. Protestors also stated that if these problems were not solved in the next few hours they would continue their protest and express their criticism of the mistreatment they have suffered, through social networks. Mayor Oscar Valencia Auca said that another group protested by putting their backpacks on the pre-Columbian city gate and attempted to take over the citadel. Valencia said that unless a solution was found soon, he would sue the Regional Directorate of Culture for the mess that is being generated locally.
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