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Macchu Picchu is to Peru what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. Making it more available to tourists could reverse its sluggish recovery.
Peru is expected to raise the daily visitor cap for Machu Picchu, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, according to a government statement provided to Intrepid Travel and seen by Skift.
Starting January 1, the statement says Machu Picchu will raise its daily visitor capacity to 4,500, The statement says that on "very specific dates," the government will raise the cap even higher, to 5,600. Peru's tourism board could not be reached for comm