Mayor of Machu Picchu asks that tourism be declared an emergency after the closure of the citadel (Gestión [Spanish] - 1/23/2023)
Authority confirmed that it has indefinitely closed the doors of the tourist attraction due to the protests.
La Torre stressed that these stoppages bring with them negative consequences for the economic activity of the place, since Machu Picchu is sustained entirely by tourism. (Photo: GEC)
Elvis La Torre, Mayor of Machu Picchu, confirmed that it has been decided to close the doors of the citadel to tourism due to the protests and the current political and social crisis that the country is going through.
“By decision of the vast majority of the population, it has been decided to abide by this indefinite strike, I just want to emphasize that the strikes that take place here in the center of Machu Picchu are totally peaceful. There is no type of violence, and they are done in coordination with the National Police," he said in an interview with RPP.
In this sense, La Torre stressed that these stoppages bring negative consequences for the economic activity of the place, since Machu Picchu is sustained entirely by tourism.
"Machu Picchu is 100% tourism, if there is no tourism there is no type of income, neither for the population nor for the municipality, because we also receive almost 90% of the collected resources," he said.
"There is no other activity to which we can transfer human capital, if there is no tourism, we are the first desolate destination," La Torre adds.
Likewise, the Mayor pointed out that these days he has been in the city of Cusco and has met with representatives of Gerencias Regionales de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (GERCETUR) and the UNESCO Management Unit (UGM) for the Executive branch to declare an emergency in the tourism sector.
"For this reason, we urgently need the Emergency Declaration of the tourism sector in order to cover these months, since until June there are cancellations and they have been detrimental to the sector," La Torre concluded.
Tags: #Cusco #MachuPicchu #Protests #Tourism #StateOfEmergency
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