At least 6 thousand tourists are stranded in the Cusco region (Diario El Sol de Cusco [Spanish] - 12/17/2022)

 At least six thousand tourists are stranded in the Cusco region (Spanish)

"We have to implement emergency tourist corridors for tourists and Peruvians throughout the country," said the regional governor of Cusco, Jean Paul Benavente.

The president of the National Assembly of Regional Governments (ANGR) and governor of Cusco, Jean Paul Benavente, demanded that emergency air and land tourist corridors be enabled so that tourists and Peruvians themselves return to their places of origin.

The Cusco authority maintained that these road corridors would allow the evacuation of national and foreign tourists, and the local population who also want to move. 'We are going to meet with the social organizations so that, together with our authorities, we can achieve this objective,' he affirmed.

Benavente García regretted that to date there are stranded students and residents who, with their economic, commercial, and service activities, are forced to remain in the cities where they only transited and cannot return to their cities of origin.

He explained to La República that an average of 6,000 North American, European, and Asian tourists who came to the city with the aim of seeing Machupicchu are stranded because of the political crisis. 'They are of different nationalities; we are coordinating with their embassies. The objective is to coordinate their evacuation, the emergency road corridor, so they can get out. It will be implemented in the next few days,' he stressed.

He considered as transcendental the political decisions that the Congress of the Republic assumes with the advancement of elections and the executive branch itself to determine measures of dialogue with the organizations to achieve calm and social peace.

Regarding the visitors who continue to spend the night at the Alejandro Velasco Astete international airport, Jean Paul Benavente García, affirmed that the Regional Government of Cusco through the Regional Management of Foreign Trade and Tourism continues to provide basic food and beverage services to more than 70 stranded passengers. "We hope that in the next few days the evacuation flights will be implemented," he concluded.

Tags: #Cusco #Protests #Tourists #Machu Picchu #Stranded #State of Emergency #Jean Paul Benavente

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