The tourist packages offered, as well as visits to the Colca Canyon and the Santa Catalina Monastery, are driving the growth of domestic tourism in the white city. AAP pointed out that Arequipa’s airport was the one that had the greatest growth during the first half of the year.
The long holiday for Fiestas Patrias is getting closer and closer and Arequipa is preparing to receive up to 18,000 tourists, registering a growth of more than 100% compared to the same period last year, when the figure was 7,000. Julio Cáceres, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Arequipa, points out that 12,000 of them would be Peruvian and that the Colca Canyon would be setting the standard.
“The percentage of Peruvians has increased, normally from the passenger flow before the pandemic, 62% were foreign tourists and that figure has currently decreased to 42%, The largest percentage now being domestic tourists with 58%“, highlights Cáceres. This growth would have been driven by the tourist packages offered.
Likewise, an increase in passenger flow is highlighted this first semester compared to the same period in 2023. At the Alfredo Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, the influx of tourists increased by 17.4%, reaching 1,065,260 passengers. This result would have been promoted by the visitors received during the first six months of the year at the Santa Catalina Monastery, totaling around 100,000; that is, more than 100% compared to last year.
On the other hand, At the level of Andean Airports of Peru (AAP) the figure has exceeded 23%, being the airports in the south of the countrysuch as Arequipa, Ayacucho, Juliaca (Puno), Puerto Maldonado (Madre de Dios) and Tacna, which received nearly two million passengers. Along these lines, AAP’s operations manager, Carlos Antonioli, emphasized that the Arequipa airport was the one that had the greatest growth during the first half of the year. Likewise, it was projected that, given the proximity of the Fiestas Patrias, AAP would have an increase of 5.1% in the flow of passengers in its five airports in the south of the country.
Source: Larepublica
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