The streets, hotels and restaurants around the ruins of Machu Picchu — Peru's most famous tourist attraction — remained almost deserted Wednesday, with train service to the area canceled amid a week-long protest over the outsourcing of entry ticket sales to a private company. Small businesses and workers in the tourism sector fear the new ticketing system imposed by Peru's government 10 days ago will hurt them while benefiting big companies, and their protests have slowed visitor arrivals to a trickle. “This seems like the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, you hardly see any people,” said Roger Monzón, an employee at the Inkas Land hotel in the Machu Picchu district, an 18-room building currently housing only two tourists from Portugal.