Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu Visitor Totals 1980 - 2013 Historic high in number of visitors to the Inca Citadel: nearly 1.2 million Total Visitors 1200000 1,177,308 FERTUR PERU TRAVEL Tour Operator & Travel Agency 1000000 www.fertur-travel.com Foreign Visitors 804,348 800000 600000 Peruvian Visitors 372,960 400000 200000 Year Source: MINCETUR/ Ministerio de Cultura - Dirección Regional de Cultura - Cusco The number of visitors to Machu Picchu 2013 Visitor Totals Foreigner Peruvian Totals Site Total in 2012 surpassed one million tourists for the first time ever. Year Choquequirao 3,646 1980 100534 45032 145566 Chan Chan 17,596 1981 96060 37214 133274 Kuélap 33,495 1982 77234 46548 123782 Moray Tipón 47,838 1983 65570 54552 120122 52,544 1984 72069 51450 123519 The figure continued to rise to a record- breaking 1.2 million visitors last year. Caral 53,913 1985 67545 59169 126714 Nazca Lookout Platform 68,377 1986 77966 63686 141652 Chavin de Huantar 70,713 1987 89726 101162 190888 Huaca del Sol y Luna 125,993 1988 116911 70431 187342 Pachacamac 145,612 1989 97594 51842 149436 Ballestas Islands 152,250 For perspective, consider that Machu Picchu received more tourists last year 1990 72867 47682 120549 Nazca Flyover 167,053 1991 41112 36183 77295 Paracas Reserve 200,034 1992 39724 54851 94575 1,139,064 1993 58090 69525 127615 than the combined total number of 1994 111083 96539 207622 1995 159590 88951 248541 visitors to the Ballestas Islands, Caral, Chan Chan, Chavín de Huántar, Choquequirao, Huaca del Sol y Luna, Kuélap, Moray, the Nazca Lines, Pachacamac, the Paracas Reserve and Tipón., 1996 198664 98334 296998 1997 189030 105002 294032 1998 227709 106854 334563 1999 286600 95591 382191 2000 352294 68096 420390 2001 294437 126433 420870 2002 308814 148284 457098 2003 333805 190003 523808 2004 338402 218477 556879 2005 475315 204636 679951 2006 480741 210884 691625 2007 548168 251900 800068 2008 616111 242100 858211 2009 581880 233388 815268 2010 472742 211089 683831 2011 670959 300683 971642 2012 762469 351965 1114434 2013 804348 372960 1177308 Developing Peru's other lesser known archaeological sites and opening them to the travelers as an alternative to Machu Picchu could be vital to sustaining the Inca Citadel. One such project is the planned cable car to Choquequirao. FERTUR PERÚTRAVEL Choquequirao Cable Car Project InfoGraphic Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversión on Feb. 4, 2014, requested bids for the design, construction and operation of the $54.3 million tramway system. The concession would be for 22 years. For nearly a century reaching the remote royal estate, built during the late 15th century by the Inca ruler Topa Inca Yupanki, has taken several days of hiking Choqueguirao over narrow high mountain passes. Cable Car Arrival Station Only a few thousand travelers make it to the site each year. (Just over 3,000 went in 2013.) Cable car Station #1 Quinualla But with the cable car, Tower #2 Cable car Tower #1 Station #2 the travel time between cable car stations will be cut to an estimated 15 minutes, carrying up to 400 people per hour. A new airport being built in the Spanish colonial town of Abancay will start running test flights in May. CABLE CAR QUINUALLA O Cobarubias HUANIPACA The airport, called "Luz de los Andes" (or "Light of the Andes"), is located just 30 minutes from where the cable car Cather o Uchubamba OPemachaca station will be built. ABANCAY Tourists will be able to Source: Gobierno Regional de Apurímac Sub Gerencia de Supervisión y Liquidación de Obras fly direct from Lima. Creating the new venue to Vilcashuamán Choquequirao could also usher into vogue the Ayacucho-Andahuaylas- Abancay overland tourist Lima route to Cusco over a Abançay newly paved highway, and in so doing introduce the ruins of Wari and the Photo Courtesy of Dave and Ann Phillips 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013