Sustainable Tourism

Concern and love for our environment is something we can’t leave aside. The ‘’sustainable tourism’’ term has become very popular nowadays which is a great improvement to the tourism industry in Cusco, in Peru and all over the world.

A1 Tours Peru was founded under a very strict and reasonable philosophy of work which includes the care and protection of our mother Earth or Pachamama. We can’t show our culture but not respect it at the same time. Our duty as a tour operator is to preserve our land and culture for future generations of both visitors and locals.

What’s sustainable tourism?

Tourism is about showing the most beautiful and amazing features of our World. From breathtaking landscapes to ancient archaeological sites filled with mystery and history.
This attracts the attention of tourists, trekkers, travel enthusiasts and more to witness and discover these amazing places. What sustainable tourism does is to prevent struggles this new amount of people coming to these areas can create. Such as pollution, crowds deteriorating the sites, acoustic pollution and more.

This can only be done with a plan and of course following the rules the local and international authorities command.

What are the impacts of tourism?

This can only be done with a plan and of course following the rules the local and international authorities command.

Environmental

Touristic places are known to be crowded by both local and foreign visitors. This is not much of an issue itself. The impact comes due to the addition of solid waste generated by this new number of people coming to a determined area. Combining this with poor regulations and restrictions results in damaging the scenery of the place and also contributing to the excess of pollution affecting both the flora and fauna as well as to the population of the zone.