Peru will raise the daily number of visitors allowed at Machu Picchu in 2024.
Right now, the current number of allowed daily visitors is 4,044.
There are 3,044 tickets per day set aside for tour operators, while 1,000 tickets per day are available for purchase in Aguas Calientes, known as Machu Picchu town, according to Maritza Chacacanta, general manager of Peru at Intrepid Travel.
Starting Jan. 1, Peru's ministry of tourism will allow up to 4,500 visitors on most days and will go as high as 5,600 on specific dates such as holidays. The higher figure is what luxury tour operator Alexander + Roberts said aligns with what the daily visitor cap was pre-pandemic.
Peru tourism continues to recover from not only the pandemic but a tumultuous start to the year. The country had civil unrest in January and February amid political turmoil after protests had broken out in the country in December 2022.
The protests resulted in the temporary closure of airports, railways and tourist sites, including the nearly month-long closure of Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail in late January.
Those sites reopened by March but demand had been slow to recover, showing signs of improvement in the fall.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the current daily visitor cap at Machu Picchu was 3,800.