Resources come from the institutional budget of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism. Items cannot be used, under responsibility, for purposes other than those for which they are transferred. The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) authorized, this Sunday, the transfer of S/ 340,069 in favor of the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima for the […]
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30% of hotels stopped operating in Arequipa due to protests
As a result of the demonstrations in the southern regions against the government of Dina Boluarte and Congress, foreign tourists continue to cancel their travel packages to visit the city of Arequipa and other attractions in the region. According to the president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of Arequipa (Now), Teresa Rubina Valencia […]
Tourist destinations in Arequipa without visitors due to protests
“Would anyone dare to come to a country where they are killing?” asks Jorge Valderrama, former president of the Arequipa Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies (AVIT). The businessman refers that due to the prolonged uncertainty that the country has been experiencing since December 2022, 80% of the travel reservation was canceled, affecting the entire […]
Cusco runs out of tourists, and workers are fired in empty hotels
By: Angeles Santos, Cusco. January 6, 2023. The day before, Calca, Cusco province, suspended the strike, whose statement calls for early elections and resignation of President Dina Boluarte. pisac It is one of the most touristic districts of this Cusco province, the starting point of the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Here is located, half […]
Tour operators in Cusco call for an end to protests in the south
Entrepreneurs and workers linked to the tourism sector of Cusco, held a sit-in yesterday in the Tupac Amaru square. They called for an end to the protests that are taking place in various regions of the country. With posters in hand, the demonstrators warned that the violent acts registered in Puno and the seizure of […]
Tourism: they ask for tax and financial facilities
The crisis caused by the pandemic in tourism has led to various unions linked to this activity requesting the declaration of an emergency in the sector since last year. In response, on April 8, the Executive officially declared the tourism sector in an emergency until December 31, 2022. The Government proposes to offer an effective […]
More than 1,700,000 foreign tourists would visit Peru in 2022, forecasts Apotur
The president of the Peruvian Association of Receptive and Internal Tourism Operators (Apotur), Enrique Quiñones estimated that, with the opening of the land borders announced by the government, the foreign tourist flow in Peru would increase between 40% and 50% (according to the official figures of foreign tourists in 2019, which was 4,450 million ) […]
The paradisiacal beaches of Southeast Asia begin a difficult reopening
the paradisiacal Beaches of Bali became accessible to tourists since last Friday, one of the last destinations in Southeast Asia to reopen to international tourism despite the limitations still caused by the pandemic and a fundamental obstacle: the closure of China, its main source of travelers. Southeast Asia – after the Caribbean, the area of […]
Mincetur and Mincul sign an agreement to promote cultural tourism
The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) announced that the bases for the development of the cultural tourismafter the signing of the Inter-institutional Cooperation Framework Agreement between the aforementioned portfolio and the Ministry of Culture (Mincul) as part of the new government policy of the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo. Given the new […]
International travelers to Cuba fell 60% in 2021
Updated on 02/06/2022 11:45 am A total of 573,944 Travellers international visited Cuba in 2021, 60% less than the previous year, the official press reported this Sunday based on data from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI). The country, which opened its borders in mid-November after the closure forced by the pandemic, has […]