Cash is king lt’s a ‘cash only’ world in Peru which can take so me getting used to if you’re coming from the UK where people use plastic to pay for absolutely everything from tube fares to food shopping. Conversely in Peru, it’s almost impossible to use credit cards in small towns and villages while, […]
Lima Municipality archaeologists found 3,500-year-old high relief polychrome friezes —similar to those of Chavin de Huantar— at Huaca Garagay site in Lima’s San Martin de Porres district. Lead archaeologist Hector Walde explained the friezes were carved on a pilaster (column) placed at the huaca’s ceremonial courtyard. “These friezes display feline features highly similar and influenced […]
Archaeological and landscape sites in Cusco lured 3,053,279 domestic and foreign travelers in 2016, Cusco’s Regional Directorate of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Dircetur) informed. Of the total, 1,084,363 came from Lima and other regions, while 1,968,916 visitors were from overseas, mainly from North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Dircetur’s head Napoleon Llanos told Andina […]
Receptive tourism experienced growth of over 40% between 2011 and 2016, mainly boosted by Peru’s Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry’s actions. Measures are aimed at promoting the arrival of greater flows of tourists in the Inca country. According to Minister Magali Silva, visits increased by 7.1% in first quarter of 2016. “Only in March growth […]
Peru’s receptive tourism industry would experience an annual sustained growth of 15% starting 2018 if immediate measures are adopted, Lima Convention and Visitors Bureau Chairman Carlos Canales affirmed. Such measures will have to be implemented during first 100 days of the Kucyznski administration taking office on July 28th. “If immediate measures are implemented, receptive tourism […]
The Government of Peru is working on a decentralized basis to guarantee security of tourism, which will lead to an increased number of visitors to the country, informed Deputy Minister of Tourism Maria del Carmen de Reparaz Zamora. She said since 2010 Tourist Protection Networks have been launched in almost all regions except two that […]
Lambayeque’s Regional Management of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Gercetur) is set to invest about S/.5 million (around US$1.5 million) in tourism projects at El Cinto archaeological site (Patapo) and the Pomac Forest Historical Sanctuary Ferreñafe), it was informed. “The objective is to draw a greater number of visitors to this area of the country,” Gercetur’s […]
Implementing the ) will provide private sector with tools required to complete a series of hotel projects, affirmed Javier Hundskopf, the head of Peruvian Association of Hotels, Restaurants and Related Establishments (Ahora). Several hotel projects –worth US$2 billion– are on desk for the next two years, which might alleviate the current deficit of four- and […]
Starting August and for the first time in history, Peru will become part of the Board of Directors of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in recognition of its several tourist attractions, Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Magali Silva said. “This means the Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry will have a seat […]
The Regional Director for the Americas at the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Carlos Vogeler, today affirmed Peru is having remarkable place in the world’s tourism industry due to its diversity and quality of products this sector has to offer. Peru is not well known only for the Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, but also […]
