Eco-Sustainable Journeys
We headed to offer journeys more eco-sustainable by consolidating positive environmental, social, and economic impacts in the zones, and communities where our services are developed. Also, we work with tour providers who share this vision.In this way, we promote equitable development with all our collaborators.
Explore the infinite possibilities Peru's biodiversity has to offer.
For those environmentally responsible travelers. Machu Travel Peru starts by hiring local labor in all its areas and has implemented strong relationships with tour providers, hotels, and communities where their experiences are developed. Searching to preserve the rich biodiversity and culture and promoting the egalitarian growth of those involved.
Our new alliance
REGENERA is a global environmental stewardship community that empowers people to take care of the zone they love, transmitting to them good habits, to promote regenerative actions. All these actions are coordinated by Nature Service Peru, the first certified B corporation of Peru. The B corporations are “impact businesses” destinated to generate value through assertive actions in society.
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Working, protecting, and restoring
we analyze the impact of tourism activities on the environment, biodiversity, and weather. for this reason, we adapted our processes to reduce our carbon footprint and thus get a more sustainable world.
Regenera is our strategic partner in this task and helps us to be completely carbon-neutral. We hope for them to experience, through our eco-aware journeys, how it feels helping to get to a sustainable planet while enjoying perfect travel.
you can travel responsibly
Ecotourism
EcotourismMachu Travel Peru cares about sharing good practices of eco-sustainability and works with environmentally friendly collaborators
We are aware of the environment and we want to share our eco-sustainable practices with more people. Thus, we continuously transmit to our collaborators and passengers a simple motto: “Carry the necessary, reuse, and recycle”. Along the same line, we work with providers who not only are sustainable but also contribute to the growth of communities and nature areas where they are working. Besides being environmentally friendly and being mindful of their impact on the world every day.
Experiential Tourism
Experiential TourismPeru is home to ancestral cultures and a rich history reflected in its communities. Some are millenary and are still valid sharing their customs. Dare to meet them!
The ancient Peruvian cultures like Chavin, Paracas, Waris, Tiahuanaco, and the imposing Inca empire left costumes and traditions deeply rooted in the lifestyle of today’s Andean and Jungle communities. The Uros floating islands in Lake Titicaca, some High-Andean communities in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Cusco, and the jungle Ashanincas and Shipibos are some examples of communities that are willing to share their houses, uses, and customs, as well as traditions from their rich past to visitors like us. A unique and unforgettable experience!
Sustainable Trekking
The contact between you and nature should be unique, unforgettable, and friendly. Leaving nothing behind so as not to impact the environment too much.
Our desire is to share the love for nature with travelers coming from abroad applying sustainable and ethical policies. Every year, many enthusiastic trekkers arrive in Peru with the hope of beginning their adventure on the famous Inca Trail or the Salkantay Trek, without mentioning the trek in the world’s fourth-deepest canyon among others and we are attentive to making those memorable wishes as possible. Machu Travel Peru works so that these adventures go hand in hand with ethics, environmental awareness, and being culturally sensitive, to protect the beauty of the places to visit and ensure a clear conscience at the end of the experience.
Alternative Tours
The Peruvian Amazon has an awesome biodiversity and a great variety of environments, cultures, and communities. And we hope that these will be preserved for many more years!
Diversify experiences by decongesting traditional routes and giving way to sustainable initiatives throughout the Amazon and the Peruvian Andes. We want to give our guests the opportunity to contact and learn respectfully the costumes and traditions of the ancient Amazon and Andes communities. For this purpose, we work with an exclusive group of ecological lodges in the Amazon and ancient communities in the Andes that take care of environmental protection minimizing the impact of tourism on their surroundings.
Sustainability
Discover the infinity of options of paths, citadels, and natural parks that Peru has to offer, contributing to their conservation for future generations.
Besides the great Machu Picchu, Peru has to offer newly discovered ancient citadels, remodeled Inca trails, and recently created natural parks. The new options of tourism are infinitive in Peru and you can enjoy them following some rules for the sustainability of the sites. In this form, we conserve these new charms of Peru with adequate sustainable policies and preserve the traditional tourist sites of a lot of tourist influx. But, don’t worry about the rules, Machu Travel Peru guides you through these sites with sustainable responsibility. All you have to do is enjoy!
The Economy in Peru
Tourism is the third-biggest industry in Peru, after mining and fishing. Consequently, the sector has given many job positions to Peruvians and has reduced poverty for the past three decades. This data is in addition to the fact that Peru, especially Machu Picchu, is “the ice on the cake” in any South American journey. Therefore, tourism in Peru has grown quickly in the last few years and has become the primary source of income for high Andean and jungle rural communities, other organizations that practice sustainable tourism, and persons who work for them.
Local Employment
Peru nation is a developing country with a large specter of poverty population in comparison with the middle and high classes. That is why we want to give back to Peru by helping to reduce poverty. And we start with ourselves, being a local company, Machu Travel Peru is 100% a Peruvian travel agency with local qualified labor in all its areas. Besides to work with providers who generate and support local employment. This fact assures that local employers can give back to their communities economically, contributing positively to the Peruvian cities’ society.
Support children
Niños del Arco Iris (Rainbow Children) is a foundation located in the Sacred Valley zone of Cusco. There, the volunteers, teachers, and nurses help local children in vulnerable states (extreme poverty, illness, abandonment) to achieve complete development in 4 areas, end of poverty, zero hunger, health and well-being, and quality education. But the children are not the only beneficiaries here, but also their families. Machu Travel Peru has been working with the foundation for some years, not only providing financial funds but also donating goods. Because no one can grow if the one next to them stops doing it.
Do you want to contribute to a sustainable trip causing the least possible impact?
Follow these steps!
- 1. The single-use plastic like bags and straws is the main agent of contamination anywhere. Please, stay away from its use.
- 2. Famous Peruvian footpaths like the Inca Trail, or ancient citadels like Machu Picchu receive hundreds of visitors per day. Can you imagine the huge amount of waste that is thrown there? Thus, if you are going to visit any Peruvian attractions, don’t throw garbage and keep them in your backpack and if you see someone, pick them up.
- 3. If you see charming local kids or native people during your journey in Peruvian lands, please don’t take pictures of them without their consent or their Parent’s consent. They are not animals and demand the same respect as anyone.
- 4. You are unique, take tours off the beaten path! Hike new paths, visit ancient citadels recently discovered and new attractions with sustainable consciousness. In this form, You will stop being part of the congestion suffered by traditional attractions.
- 5. Respect the visit period of each attraction. Remember, each Peruvian attraction has its own study of load capacity and will be excellent if the traveler respects the maximum capacity of visits stipulated. We have to preserve these attractions for future generations.