TOURISM IN PERU IS INCREASING, FOR IT HAS WONDERFUL CONSEQUENCES

The first result of the growing of tourism in Peru is that our economy has increased. According to Era; Peru is between the 10 countries that has not suffered the consequences of the global crisis together with India, Thailand and Taiwan*2 and with the increase our economy we have experimented good causes. The first cause of it is that with the money that SUNAT receives from the taxes that big companies pay, government can build mores schools, churchs and villages for poor children, also government can make social projects to help people who live in bad conditions. As the second result, we can invest in more advanced technology to improve social items like security of the Peruvian cities, machines for hospitals and environmental issues. All of these items are very important if we can have a better country and be recognized like one of the first world, because if we are getting a increase in our economy the next goal is be a development country.


A second result is the fame that we have gotten thanks to the tourist who visit our country and thanks to the famous people who have come here, people like Leonardo Dicaprio, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Banderas, Cameron Diaz, Thalia. They have seen and lived our culture and when they return to their countries they have shared with friends and have made a chain of good comments about our customs, cuisine, places and people. Therefore, other people want to visit Peru and in this way the fame increase rapidly, so it has two gorgeous consequences. One of them is that we can have more opportunities to work, to study or to set up a business abroad. There are examples of people who have made a life in far countries like France, where there is a Peruvian restaurant named “Beauty Barranco” , whose owner is a Peruvian man and it has been visited by the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. Another country is Thailand, where Kola Real has a plant to produce soda, and a lot of more examples. The second gorgeous consequence of the fame is that important companies have decided open branches and make important investments, companies like Hilton hotels in Ica, . that have noticed the good potential that our country offers to make successful business in terms of tourism.

As a third result we have the increase of exportations. According to ADEX*3 we export 12% percent more than 8 years ago. Good examples of exportation are asparagus, coffee and weavings. The principal effects of exportation are: more jobs and less poor people. As a result of exportation Peruvian people have more opportunities to get a job because big companies produce tons of products to send abroad, not only big companies generate new employs also common people can generate their own job, for example potters made wonderful potteries that sell in fairs to the tourists. The decrease of poverty is the second effect of exportation, because people who live far from the cities usually have farms and they produce vegetables to sell to the big companies that process these vegetables and export abroad.

In brief, tourism is an important resource that we have and if we continue exploding it, but in a responsible way, with a lot of care and thinking in the future of our country, we are going to have more opportunities and consequently good results in many items as we can see.





*2: Dreifus, Johnson. “Global Crisis”. Era 24 March 2010. <http://www.era.com/2010/02/12/0215/ped.html>.

*3: “Exportations in the period of January – July” ADEX: Asociacion de exportadores August 2009. <http://www.adex.gob.pe>