Inkaterra has launched its new website, featuring an attractive and user-friendly design with new photos, updated information and an innovative booking engine. Each Inkaterra hotel is presented through a detailed menu, which allows travellers to get acquainted with the sense of place, facilities, room categories, à-la-carte excursions and additional services. Press reviews and guest comments are also presented, as well as awards and recognitions. Travel guides to all Inkaterra destinations, from the Amazon rainforest of Madre de Dios to the Andean highlands of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, include useful tips for a memorable travel experience. The new web is also a gateway to the brand’s 40-year history, team members and its renowned sustainability ethos, with a link to all scientific research and biodiversity conservation initiatives managed by NGO Inka Terra Asociación (ITA).

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INKATERRA MOVIE TRAILER RELEASED

Watch the trailer of a short feature about Inkaterra, to be released on mid-year celebrating its 40th Anniversary. Produced by GLP Films, dedicated to adventure travel productions, the movie is a journey from Inkaterra’s origins as ecotourism pioneer in Peru to the holistic approach that creates added value in rural areas. Showcasing the emblematic Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel (member of National Geographic Unique Lodges of the World), the film explores facilities and excursions, as well as initiatives to conserve biodiversity in the Machu Picchu cloud forest. The world’s largest native orchid collection, birding and organic tea activities, and the Andean Bear Rescue Center are some the initiatives for biodiversity conservation highlighted in the film, which presents Inkaterra's unique vision to share Peruvian nature and culture throughout the world.

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INKA TERRA ASOCIACIÓN PERFORMS RESEARCH ON PERMANENT PLOT IN MADRE DE DIOS

Permanent plot studies are a scientific tool that reveals the natural processes in various ecosystems, as well as the dynamics between flora and fauna coexisting in a given habitat. Since 2010 Inka Terra Asociación (ITA) establishes permanent plots for research in its areas of influence, to collect data and determine its conservation status. Last February, volunteers and forestry students supported ITA’s initiative, monitoring palm tree diversity and other plant species, as well as seed dispersion, in the Amazon rainforest of Madre de Dios.

VASQUEZIELLA BOLIVIANA ORCHID REGISTERED FOR FIRST TIME IN PERU

A recent study published on Orchideen Journal’s first issue of 2016 scientifically proves that Vasqueziella boliviana, considered until recently an endemic species from Bolivia, is also found at the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu and at Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel’s native orchid collection. Research on this little-known species, conducted by Inkaterra Asociación collaborator Benjamín Collantes and Dr. Günter Gerlach (Munich Botanical Garden), confirms the extraordinary biodiversity at the Machu Picchu cloud forest and encourages its conservation.

BEST OF PERU TRAVEL FEATURES INKATERRA HACIENDA URUBAMBA

Nicola Connolly has written an enthusiastic review of Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba, the brand's most recent property and the only Peruvian hotel to be part of Travel+Leisure’s It List 2016 celebrating the world’s best new hotels. According to Best of Peru Travel, "This hotel is a little piece of paradise nestled in the mountain side. Attention to detail, creativity and exquisite taste combine to create a unique, modern and elegant country-house style hotel that highlights the local Andean culture."

CAPTAIN NORM ISAACS' FEBRUARY REPORT

Fishing, although not "off the charts", has been steady. All of the groups onboard the Miss Texas cranked in a fish or two plus having fresh caught tuna for dinner. All fishermen are subject to the whims of Mother Nature and in February she smiled on us. We had few days where the surf was too big to safely come and go from the Cabo Blanco Pier, as expected this time of year. The remaining days, water was relatively calm and we were able to find decent sized mahi-mahi (dorado) and tuna. No reason not to expect fishing to get better in the next few months.

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