14:36 | Lima, May. 3.
Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Claudia Cornejo on Monday announced that Lake Titicaca (in Puno region) and Colca Valley (in Arequipa region) have been granted hierarchy 4 status —the top distinction that a tourism resource can receive in the world— which in Peru only Machu Picchu, Nazca Lines, and Amazon River have attained.
Thanks to hierarchy 4 status, these destinations are classified as tourism resources of national importance and great significance for the international tourism market, being capable of attracting important flows of visitors —where health conditions allow.
Cornejo explained that the Regional Governments of Arequipa and Puno supported —before the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur)—the aspects that allowed Colca Valley and the Titicaca National Reserve to receive this hierarchy status.