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How coronavirus is threatening tourism on the road to Peru's Machu Picchu


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Editor’s Note: This work was supported by the Emergency Fund by COVID-19 for Journalists from the National Geographic Society.
Juan Yupanqui stared at a pile of mattresses, still wrapped in the plastic they came in when he bought them nearly a year ago. He wondered out loud if they would ever do more than gather dust.
The mattresses were stacked in one of the round, thatched-roof guesthouses Yupanqui built last year on his homestead in Patacancha, a small village nestled more than 11,000 feet above sea level near the colonial city of Cusco, in Peru’s southern Andes. With their small windows and rustic furniture, the cabins were erected to expand his family’s experiential tourism business. ....

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The collapse of tourism brings problems to Machu Picchu


The collapse of tourism brings problems to Machu Picchu
Lucien Chauvin
© Photograph by Sharon Castellanos and Victor Zea
In the fall of 2020, a woman walked by the Cathedral of Cusco high in the Peruvian Andes. Tourism in the area surrounding the Incan ruins at Machu Picchu have come to a halt due to COVID-19 closures, and many residents have returned to agriculture and other trades to support themselves.
Editor’s Note: This work was supported by the Emergency Fund by COVID-19 for Journalists from the National Geographic Society.
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Sebastián Tobón, owner of Supertramp Hostels in Aguas Calientes, Peru, sits in one of his empty properties in the Peruvian town adjacent to Machu Picchu. The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated the tourism economy in the area surrounding the Inca ruins, which attract more than a million visitors in a normal year. ....

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