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Peru's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to have expanded by around 6 percent in March this year, said on Tuesday Luis Miguel Castilla, Peruvian Economy and Finance Minister. |
 Peru's central bank slashed its forecast for this year's economic expansion to 5.5 percent from its previous estimate of 6 percent because mining activity will likely be weaker than expected, the bank's president said late on Tuesday.
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Investors interested in the contract to build and manage Cuzco's Chinchero International Airport have until the 15 June to place their bids.
The concession involves designing, building, financing and operating the airport under a 30-year contract, according to Giancarlo Villafranqui, legal adviser at ProInversi�n.
The airport will require an investment of $379 million.
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Three consortiums submitted their technical and economic bids for Peru's US$658mn Cusco airport concession, according to a release from private investment promotion agency ProInversi�n.
There were seven prequalified consortiums, although ProInversi�n did not release their names. The three that submitted bids are the Kuntur Wasi consortium comprised of Argentine firm Corporaci�n Am�rica and local company Andino Investment Holding; the Aeroportuario Imperial consortium made up of Colombia's Grupo Odinsa and Mota Engil Per�; and the Aeropuerto Chinchero consortium consisting of France's Vinci Airport and Vinci Concessions and Peru's Gra�a y Montero.
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Local and international scientists will be meeting in Lima next week for a workshop on health in climate change, as well as water and air pollution.
The three-day workshop is being organized by the Cayetano Heredia University and will kick off on April 27 with a lecture by Dr. Kyle Steenland, a professor of environmental health epidemiology at Emory University.
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Peru's President Ollanta Humala has stressed quinoa-growing is an engine of development in the country's high Andean regions as it represents a unique opportunity of progress for all families living in this area.
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San Francisco-based Pacific Organic Produce will be importing its first ever Peruvian organic pomegranate arils this week, it has been reported.
Pacific Organic founder Greg Holzman noted it was not possible to import the organic fruit whole, but the arils offered a refreshing, alternative option for the summer.
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Peru has joined forces with consultants from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Orgnization (FAO) hired by the World Bank (WB) to develop an innovative aquaculture program, it was announced Tuesday.
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Chilean telco Entel has revealed that it intends to invest USD200 million annually in its Peruvian operations over the next three years. The funds will be used to upgrade and expand the mobile infrastructure of its local wireless unit Nextel, including the deployment of a 4G network in the 1700MHz/2100MHz band. The investment is also expected to fund the rollout of a fibre-optic backbone network.
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Lima's Jorge Ch�vez International Airport has been named "Best Airport in South America" by Skytrax for the sixth consecutive year. Passengers chose Peru's Jorge Chavez International Airport because of the airport's "pleasant ambience, as well as its outstanding commercial offerings," according to a press release from Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide.
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If you're looking to escape the busy, crowded streets of Cusco, then the Sacred Valley is the perfect place to get out of the city and relax. Aside from beautiful landscapes, solitude, and fresh mountain air, the Sacred Valley also offers some excellent examples of Inca culture. Much of the local culture draws upon ancient practices that live on today. Read on to learn more about some of these intriguing cultural practices in the Sacred Valley.
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Peru will host the World Travel & Tourism Council's Americas Summit, to be held in Lima on September 10th-11th 2014.
The Americas Summit will bring together the public sector and leading private sector organisations from North, Central, South America and the Caribbean to engage in a constructive debate on a range of global tourism issues in the Americas regional context.
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Four acclaimed Peruvian gourmet chefs will spread the nutritional bounties of the Andean nation's quinoa at the culinary event "Quinoa, the Golden Grain of the Incas", to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 28-30, 2014.
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 This year, over eight thousand guests are expected to attend the 9th annual 'Peru, Mucho Gusto,' a culinary exhibition that celebrates Peruvian cuisine. The event, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) and PromPeru, will be held at the waterfront of Pisco and will run from May 1-3.
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 Peru's national soccer team has begun early this week its preparation ahead of the two warm-up matches with England and Switzerland, it was reported Tuesday.
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