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• Choquequirao would garner additional revenue for the continued work on the site itself. Currently with

less than half uncovered, there are many more areas to continue exploration.

ii. POTENTIAL PROBLEMS

• Currently, most of the people who hike to visit Choquequirao also camp in several sites within the park.

Rising popularity would likely cut in to this practice and increase security of the site both for the tourists

and the protection of the remains.

• The site of Machu Picchu already has faced problems with UNESCO when the surrounding area wasn’t

properly governed and threatened the protection of the site (“Historic Sanctuary,” 2019). Population

boomed along with the tourism, which ultimately led to problems as well as benefits. Choquequirao would

likely need more careful local government to avoid a similar situation if it were to reach global tourist

attention.

• As is expected with most sites that attract tourists, there is always the risk of damage to the remains and the

surrounding areas. Additional measures would need to be taken not only in the site itself, but on the roads

or other transportation methods to and from Cusco and Aguas Calientes.

CABLE CAR DEBATE

The primary effort to put Choquequirao on the map with tourism in Peru is to create a cable car that connects

nearby villages to the site. The thought behind this is to prevent the destruction to the site that roads and vehicles

would bring. While the cable car certainly seems to be a better alternate solution that would roads, busses, and

trains, there are still some concerns about the idea.

Currently, the government of the Apurimac state is pushing for a tramway and cable car that they believe would

have the potential to bring 3,000 tourists a day. Some of the idea is to shift the burden tourism is causing on

Machu Picchu, but as the sites sit in two separate regions of government in Peru, the question of revenue and

profit is up for debate and disagreement. If tourists traveled to and from both Machu Picchu and Choquequirao,

who would reap the benefits of ticket sales? The transportation areas, the airport in the Cusco region, and the site

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