📋 Tender Overview
The Culture, Environment and Foreign Trade and Tourism sectors initiated coordinated actions to address the main management, conservation and regulation challenges in Machupicchu.With the aim of providing comprehensive solutions to the challenges faced by the Historic Sanctuary of Machupicchu, the ministries of Culture, Environment and Foreign Trade and Tourism continue a joint process aimed at modernizing management, reinforcing conservation and guaranteeing safe and orderly access to the countrys main tourist and cultural destination.
As part of the measures adopted, on November 17, the advance sale of tickets for the Inka Trail and the Llaqta of Machupicchu network began successfully, meeting the recommendations made by the tour operators and contributing to more efficient planning of national and international visits.
On that same date, the three sectors signed a specific collaboration agreement to promote a new carrying capacity study in the Historical Sanctuary, which will be an indispensable tool for the sustainable management of the site.
Likewise, the process of comprehensive updating of the regulatory framework that regulates tourism and conservation activities in Machupicchu began, incorporating the participation of all competent sectors.
In the technological field, the Ministry of Culture renewed the virtual ticket sales platform, with reinforced standards of security, transparency and control, and began with technical training for the teams of the three ministries involved, in order to provide clear information to tour operators.
Likewise, the ministers will ask the Technical Secretariat of the Machupicchu Management Unit (UGM) to convene, in the coming days, a session of the Steering Committee, to inform the Regional Government of Cusco and the local authorities about the progress of these measures.
The Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism agreed that the solution to the challenges facing Machupicchu requires an articulated and sustained intervention. In that sense, they reaffirmed their commitment to protect and manage the countrys most emblematic cultural heritage in a responsible and coordinated manner.
