Peru will raise the daily number of visitors allowed at Machu Picchu in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Right now, the current number of visitors allowed to visit the Incan citadel everyday is 3,800.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starting Jan. 1, Peru will allow up to 4,500 visitors on most days and will go as high as 5,600 on specific dates, according Peru’s ministry of tourism.<\/p>\n
Peru tourism continues to recover from not only the pandemic but a tumultuous start to the year. The country had civil unrest in January and February amid political turmoil after protests had broken out in the country in December 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The protests resulted in the temporary closure of airports, railways and tourist sites, including the nearly month-long closure of Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail in late January.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those sites reopened by March but demand had been slow to recover, showing signs of improvement in the fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n