"...During the peak months of July and August from 1996 to 2001 as many as 1500 people were starting the Inca Trail trek everyday (about 1000 tourists and 500 porters) .
There were no regulations and many trekkers camped wherever they wanted, using the ruins as toilets and discarding rubbish along the trail.
The Inca Trail was starting to receive a lot of negative press and UNESCO threatened to remove its status as a World Heritage Site.
In order to protect the site the Peruvian government introduced new Inca Trail Regulations in 2002. These regulations restrict the number of trekkers and prevent trekkers from doing the trail independently..."

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