A History of Tourism

The path to the entrance of Machu Picchu can be difficult, and it is up to you if you make your way to this popular tourist destination by plane, train or bus, or while hiking through the mountains to give up and walk. It can be fascinating when you are there, but logistics is a terrible place of God, and it took some time after its discovery in the bustling tourist town that we do today.
Yes, despite their inherent inaccessibility were the ruins of Machu Picchu firmly anchored in one of the most popular travel the world and attracts crowds from all over the world to admire separate mist of cloud forest, the ancient ruins show peaks





In spite of this website and the investigation of long-term popularity, people are still not sure what exactly was the purpose of this wonder of the world. Site construction began in 1400 and was once Spanish Peru had a century later it was registered abandoned. Only when most of its rediscovery by Hiram Bingham, 24 July 1911 has been the attention paid on an international basis for the now-famous archaeological site
The jungle surrounding Machu Picchu was taken on the page, and much time was needed to clear the vegetation. It was subsequently examined, and most of the buildings rebuilt, so that tourists a better visual comfort, as the citadel believed that would have looked like at the time of the Incas. The work is all the time, and only 30% of the restoration of Machu Picchu was made in 1976
Thank you, that the Spaniards can not find that page, it was still intact when compared to other ruins in Peru, despite the need for reconstruction. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1983, he had already appointed a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981. In an international survey online in 2007, he was elected as one of the seven wonders of the world
Tourism in Machu Picchu was, for many decades due to the fact that to achieve the removal of the miracle that made it expensive and difficult to weak. In addition, concerns about guerrilla activity in Peru in the 1980s of visitors who come in rather large numbers. It was quit gradually, especially after the guerrilla conflict in 1999
In recent years, tourism has grown by leaps and bounds. An example is the classic Inca Trail and the fact that the number of people trekking to Machu Picchu, it was 82 000 was increased in 2000 from 6,000 in 1984. Currently, walking for combining combines the numbers with the numbers, far more nearly a million visitors per year
Due to the impact on the environment and the many tourists who visit the site, it is feared that this is more of a risk of deterioration. In 2011 the Peruvian government has taken steps to access the site to 2,500 people per day are limited, although many people are still too many. For there is still an important part of the Peruvian economy, and a large part of the festival in the country, all the rumors that he will one day on tourism hardly closed