{"id":6190,"date":"2013-03-09T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:51:51","slug":"record-breaking-1-1-million-tourists-visited-machu-picchu-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2013\/record-breaking-1-1-million-tourists-visited-machu-picchu-in-2012\/6190\/","title":{"rendered":"Record breaking 1.1 million tourists visited Machu Picchu in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visitors to Peru’s most famous archeological site, the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu, surpassed one million tourists for the first time ever in 2012.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The record-breaking figure of 1,114,434 visitors\u00a0 appears in the annual\u00a0 totals published by the Ministry of Foreign Commerce and Tourism<\/a> (MINCETUR).<\/p>\n

But the million+ Machu Picchu milestone \u2014\u00a0an average of more than 3,000 people per day \u2014 has received little publicity or fanfare.
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Perhaps that’s because for years UNESCO and Peru\u2019s Ministry of Culture have been at odds with MINCETUR and Peru\u2019s private tourism sector<\/a> over how many tourists should be allowed to enter Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n

The UNESCO-sponsored Master Plan for Machu Picchu in 2001 called for no more than 917 visitors per day \u2014 and no more than 385 visitors at any one time.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the National Institute of Culture \u2014 now under the Culture Ministry \u2014 recommended a maximum carrying capacity of 2,000 visitors. Peru\u2019s central government advocated in 2002 for 3,400, and the parties settled in 2008 on a daily limit of 2,500 visitors.<\/p>\n

But in recent years, Peru’s tourism sector has pushed hard to raise the limit. Peru\u2019s Tourism Ministry contended in a 2011 report that Machu Picchu could handle up to 5,479 visitors per day, setting up a verbal confrontation with then-Culture Minister Susana Baca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peru risks the wrath of UNESCO, which could add Peru\u2019s top tourist attraction to an infamous list of endangered sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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