Today Peru was awarded the seal “Safe Travels”, the worldwide seal for safety and hygiene in tourism of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), which states that the international safety and hygiene standards for protection against COVID-19 are being met. “Safe Travels” is the first global health and safety seal for Travel and Tourism, […]
They will also restart visits to museums and monuments in Lima and Lambayeque. Minister of Culture ratifies the reopening of Machu Picchu in November. From next October 15, the tourist visits to seven important archaeological complexes in Cusco, which are part of the cultural and historical legacy of our country, will restart. From that day […]
The Corona pandemic has serious consequences for tourism in Peruvian Cusco. Most of the companies associated with this sector suffered heavy losses. Of 4,371,787 visitors to the world-famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in 2019, only 591,900 arrived this year. According to the Regional Directorate of Foreign Trade Tourism (Dircetur), there are 19,187 registered providers […]
Peru will open its airspace for international commercial flights from Monday 5 October 2020. As part of the measures to contain the Covid 19 pandemic, it had been closed for six months, affecting around ten million travelers. The connection will initially be made to eleven destinations in seven countries, with a maximum flight time of […]
It will be part of the procedure to enter Peru from abroad This morning, the Technical Guide to the protocol for the attention of travelers entering and leaving Peru on special flights was published. This guide establishes the necessary procedures for the entry of passengers to the country and the biosecurity measures that they must […]
It proposed to authorise air traffic with minimum frequencies at an early stage. The president of the National Chamber of Tourism (CANATUR), Carlos Canales, warned this Thursday that it is necessary to resume the operation of international flights in the country in order to give a boost to the tourism sector, which has been hit […]
Cusco – Railway Company PeruRail modifies services of users in route Ollantaytambo Machupicchu Hydroelectric (Santa Teresa) Source: PerúRail
Again the measure is taken with little time to adapt AIRLINES BEGIN TO SUSPEND FLIGHTS TO CUSCO The Minister of Transport and Communications (MTC), Carlos Estremadoyro, informed today that interprovincial land and air travel will be suspended in the regions that have returned to quarantine, due to the increase in cases of covid-19 infections. These […]
The list includes Madre de Dios, Ancash, Moquegua, Tacna, Puno, Huancavelica, Cajamarca, Amazonas and Apurimac Interprovincial land and air travel will be suspended in the regions that have returned to quarantine, due to the increase in cases of contagion from Covid-19, Minister of Transport and Communications Carlos Estremadoyro announced today. These are the regions of […]
The Executive officially extended the state of national emergency and the targeted quarantine in some regions of the country until 31 August. The standard provides for targeted quarantine in the departments of Arequipa, Ica, Junín, Huánuco and San Martín, as well as in the province of Tambopata (Madre de Dios), in the provinces of Santa, […]
A decision will depend largely on the reports issued by the Minsa on the status of the pandemic. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) said Thursday that international flights could be authorized by the end of this year or early 2021. This way, he specified that this decision will depend largely on the […]
Yesterday, the new Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Rocio Barrios, announced that international flights would be authorized again by the end of this year or the beginning of 2021, depending on the reports provided by the Ministry of Health (Minsa) regarding the advance of the coronavirus in Peru. “This is not definitive because we […]
A large number of Latin American airlines will close if they do not resume flights in the coming weeks, in a region where public aid to the sector is minimal, warned Peter Cerdá, vice-president for the Americas of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). “If border restrictions or closures continue into September or October, we […]
PeruRail informed that, within the framework of the health emergency by the Covid-19 and with the objective of attending to the travel of the inhabitants of the district of Machu Picchu and the surrounding communities, the Local Train will operate from today from Monday to Sunday. Below are the schedules for these transport services: *Click […]
The Decentralized Cultural Directorate of Cusco (DDCC) blamed the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp) for the yellow pints that appeared on a stretch of the Inca Trail, which generated controversy on social networks because it is a heritage site. This fact also revealed a certain lack of coordination between the […]
The members of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Trade and Tourism approved the bill “Promotion of Tourism and Recognition of the Heritage of the Atahualpa Cuarto del Rescate in Cajamarca”, which seeks to highlight the recognition of the intercultural approach that should prevail in relation to tourism projects in that region of the country. “The […]
Staff from Ferrocarril Transandino, the company that holds the concession for the railroad in the south and southeast of the country, successfully completed the rehabilitation of the railroad line between Cusco and Poroy, which was affected by an unusually heavy rainfall during the first months of the year. Remediation and repair work on the railway […]
The Ministry of Culture reported that the number of people who visited the museums on its online platform exceeded one million. Of this number, an average of 400,000 visits corresponded to the period of the National State of Emergency decreed by the government, said Claudia Pereyra, head of the General Directorate of Museums. The ‘Virtual […]
Around 10,000 Peruvians are still stranded in various countries after the closure of our borders in mid-March, a measure ordered by the government to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. Of that total, some 3,000 compatriots will be repatriated by the end of May, the Foreign Ministry reported. “It has been a very big effort, not only […]
Through the joint work between the Ministry of Culture and the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp), the Executive Branch provided free access to public servants and children, adolescents and older persons, whether national or foreign, to the country’s archaeological sites, museums, historical sites and natural areas, administered and/or protected by […]
The museums, historical sites and archaeological complexes, such as the citadel of Machu Picchu, will open their doors next July with free access for public servants, children, adolescents and the elderly, whether nationals or foreigners, as provided by the Government for the reactivation and economic promotion of tourism in the framework of the health emergency […]
Foreign Minister Gustavo Meza-Cuadra reported that since March 17, when the country’s borders were closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (covid-19), more than 13,000 Peruvians from 26 countries abroad have been repatriated. During his participation in the virtual session of the Congressional Foreign Affairs Committee, Minister Meza-Cuadra said that since the beginning of […]
With the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu empty, Peru’s thriving tourism industry was left in intensive care because of the coronavirus and its recovery will be slow. “Machu Picchu is the visible face of tourism in Peru,” but “there has been zero tourism since March 16, complying with the decree” of national confinement in […]
