Dating back to the 15th century and settling on a 7,970-foot mountain, the Inca citadel reopened with an Inca exhibition and ritual.
“Today Machu Picchu. Se opens with protocols (health and safety), opens to say that we are reactivating but with duty and wonderful caution because we see everything in the world,” said foreign trade and tourism Minister Rocío. Neighborhoods, in a speech.
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While the global tourism industry as a whole has been shaken by the pandemic, thousands of employees are reportedly lost their source of income only near the citadel. Before COVID-19, there were 80 hotels in Ollantaytambo, a city in Cusco, but today at least part of them went bankrupt, Joaquín Randall, head of the local hotel and restaurant organization, told AFP.
The ancient city, meantime, had already reopened last month for a single tourist, stranded in Peru for just seven months by the pandemic. The traveler, the 26-year-old Japanese tourist Jesse Katayama, was on his way to make a stopover in the Inca citadel in March when the closures were announced.
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Peru had 902,503 cases of coronavirus on Monday, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University.