Inbound Tourism generated USD 5.351 billion in 2025

Diego Alarcón

By Diego Alarcón

Inbound tourism generated foreign exchange revenue of $5.351 billion in 2025, an unprecedented figure that surpassed the levels recorded over the past decade, including the period before COVID-19, according to a report by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur).

“It can be seen that total foreign exchange revenue from inbound tourism in 2025 ($5.351 billion) represented a 10.1% increase over the 2024 result (when it reached $4.860 billion),” the agency stated.

According to the document “Foreign Exchange Revenue Generated by Inbound Tourism,” prepared by Mincetur, in 2025 revenue from the Travel category amounted to $3.963 billion, while revenue generated by Passenger Transport totaled $1.387 billion.

“The $5.351 billion in revenue is a figure made up of foreign exchange from inbound tourism corresponding to spending by foreign visitors and by visits from Peruvians residing abroad,” the report specified.

“The Travel category (74.1% of the total) exceeded the previous year’s figure by 7.8%, while Passenger Transport (25.9% of the total) grew by 17.2%,” the document added.

The Mincetur study, reported by the Andina news agency, also notes that total foreign exchange from inbound tourism was $3.731 billion in 2023 and $3.027 billion in 2022.

In the most critical years of the pandemic, this figure stood at $1.042 billion in 2021 and $1.002 billion in 2020. Before the pandemic, the amounts recorded were as follows: $4.703 billion in 2019, $4.505 billion in 2018, $4.439 billion in 2017, $4.288 billion in 2016, and $4.140 billion in 2015.

“During the pre-pandemic period 2015-2019, foreign exchange revenue grew at an average annual rate of 3.2%,” the Mincetur document notes.

The Central Reserve Bank (BCR) explains that the Travel category covers spending by international visitors on goods and services during their stay in the country, while the Passenger Transport account records ticket sales abroad, information obtained through Balance of Payments surveys that include Peru-based airlines with international flight operations.