One of the most influential magazines in the travel industry, HOTELS, featured an extensive article on Inkaterra highlighting its acknowledgement as the first-ever Climate Positive hotel brand in the world. “After measuring Inkaterra’s CO2 footprint, elaborate mitigation plan with a 5% per year reduction target by 2030 and offset, GreenInitiative — a certification company endorsed by the United Nations — declared the Lima, Peru-based eco-tourism company as climate positive, which means any activity that furthers the achievement of carbon neutrality, providing an environmental benefit by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”

Soon after the announcement, which coincided with the 2021 Climate Change Conference (COP 26), HOTELS collaborator Kathakali Nandi interviewed Inkaterra Founder and President Jose Koechlin and Head of Content Gabriel Meseth, who described the Climate Positive recognition as “a validation of Inkaterra’s 46 years of efforts placing scientific research, biodiversity conservation and sustainability at the very core of its business.”

“Inkaterra has pioneered ecotourism in Peru since 1975. For us, hospitality is a means to our end, which is sustainable development. Therefore, we work under a holistic approach where we produce scientific research as a basis for biodiversity conservation and the wellbeing of local communities,” Koechlin and Meseth told HOTELS.

Writer Kathakali Nandi also highlights Inkaterra’s most recent initiatives on ecotourism and sustainable development such as Cabo Blanco in Northern Peru, a former game fishing mecca, where Inkaterra plans to establish a new beach hotel. Inkaterra will offer travelers a “privileged spot” surrounded by waves for surfers and kitesurfers and will continue to develop new diving routes in the destination.

HOTELS magazine emphasizes that Inkaterra’s approach for climate action and biodiversity can be implemented in other destinations worldwide. “Inkaterra’s expertise is available for anyone who needs it,” Koechlin said. “The natural environment and native cultures are our industry’s most precious resources, and their conservancy is the only way to ensure the future of travel.”

“THIS IS THE CRÈME DE LA CRÈME”:
THE NEW YORK TIMES FEATURES ‘MACHU PICCHU AND THE GOLDEN EMPIRES OF PERU’

On November 28, The New York Times reviewed ‘Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru,’ the largest exhibition to showcase Peru’s cultural legacy and extraordinary biodiversity, running through March 3 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida. This groundbreaking event, produced by Inkaterra Asociación in alliance with the producers of the record-breaking ‘Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs,’ has been praised by the NYT as “a dazzling collection of sculpted gold and silver ornaments, ceramic jugs and bowls, many dating back thousands of years.”

“The exhibition has been staged like a theatrical production with dramatic lighting, sparkling crystal glass display cases and a virtual reality feature that takes you on a swooping, plunging, magic carpet ride over the roofless ruins of the Inca citadel,” the NYT hails.

This all-new, immersive museum experience boasts a stunning selection of 192 artifacts from the Larco Museum – one of the most impressive collections of gold treasures to ever tour the world. From all the magnificent objects displayed at the Boca Museum, the NYT highlights “one stunning set of gold funereal trappings set on a skeletal manikin slams you to a stop: a big, blazing chest covering, a gleaming crown and shimmering round disks for the ears.”

“You feel the power of every object,” said Michelle Feuer to the NYT, a director of a tech start-up from West Palm Beach, after spending part of an afternoon absorbing the pre-Columbian art. According to Andrew James Hamilton, a curator at the Chicago Art Institute, “this is the crème de la crème.”

At the exhibition’s gift shop, visitors receive special rates and promotions to stay at the Inkaterra lodges. “Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru is the most innovative way to welcome travelers from all around the world to explore our many wonders,” says exhibition partner José Koechlin.