INCA TRAIL REGULATION
During the high season of July and August from 1996 to 2001 as many as 1600 people were starting the Inca Trail trek everyday (about 1000 tourists and 600 porters).
There were no Inca Trail regulations and many trekkers camped wherever they wanted, using the ruins as latrines and disposing rubbish along the trail.
The Inca Trail was starting to get a lot of negative press and UNESCO threatened to remove its status as a World Heritage Site
Inca Trail Regulations were introduced in 2002 by the Peruvian government in order to protect monumnet. These regulations restrict the number of trekkers and prevent trekkers from doing the trail independently..."
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