Once again Machupicchu —Peru’s top tourist destination— has received an international award that recognizes it as an important world attraction. This time, the Inca citadel was selected as South America’s Leading Tourist Attraction 2022 by the World Travel Awards.
The important recognition has been achieved by the Inca citadel for the fifth consecutive year —having previously won this category in the 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 editions.
The latest achievement was reported last week by Peru’s Exports and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru), which highlighted the importance of this award —the regional version of the World Travel Awards, also known as the Oscars of World Tourism.
Yet this was not the only recognition received by Peru; it was also named South America’s Leading Culinary Destination 2022 and Leading Cultural Destination 2022 in the region.
PromPeru recalled that our country had received a total of 20 nominations in this regional edition.
As is known, Machupicchu was previously crowned in this category of the World Travel Awards 2021’s global edition, competing versus major world attractions, such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, the IMG Worlds of Adventure in Dubai, and the EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin, among others.
About the World Travel Awards
The World Travel Awards™ was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward, and celebrate excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries.
Today, the World Travel Awards brand is recognized globally as the ultimate hallmark of industry excellence.
It celebrates its 29th anniversary year in 2022. Its annual program is renowned as the most prestigious and comprehensive in the global industry.
Each year, it covers the globe with its Grand Tour —a series of regional gala ceremonies to recognize excellence within each continent, culminating in a Grand Final at the end of the year.