Thursday, June 5
Forbes / Reuters Peru to invest $10 mln in 2003 to promote tourism: "Tourism, Peru's third foreign cash earner after mining and fishing, brought this poor country $841 million in 2002, according to government estimates. But President Alejandro Toledo's government is trying to broaden tourism in Peru -- concentrated in just a handful of sites -- and increase the number of visitors each year." One of the bottlenecks is that many sites in Peru could not handle increased tourism, while neglected areas go begging for tourists.
