Inca ruins, splendours from even-older cultures, Spanish colonial towns, pristine jungles and good food: Peru has much to offer the tourists who are flocking there in ever-greater numbers. But if it is not careful, its tourist industry risks becoming its own worst enemy. Having doubled so far this decade to 1.8m last year, tourist arrivals were up a further fifth in January compared with the same month in 2007. Adding to hopes of a bumper year of visitors, two big summits-one involving European and Latin American leaders, and the other of apic, a group of Asian and Pacific economies-are to be held in Lima.
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