The percentage of local people or from neighboring communities who work in the hotels is:

• In Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica and the support office in Puerto Maldonado, 85% of the workers are from Puerto Maldonado (the local city) or Cusco (nearby city).
• In the El MaPi hotel in Machu Picchu Pueblo 76% of the employees are from Cusco and Puno.
• In the hotel Inkaterra La Casona and the support office in Cusco 69% of the workers are from Cusco, Concepción and Arequipa.
• In Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel 75% of the employees are from Cusco, Machu Picchu or nearby villages.

Including those locally hired:

• Lodgings;
• Uniforms;
• Food (operative units);
• Round trip air fare for those not from the area;
• Training trips to other hotels;
• Training courses;
• English classes;
• Talks on health, first aid;
• Medical campaigns ;
• Accident insurance;
• Recreational activities (soccer, volleyball, etc);
• Celebration activities (birthday month, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Labor Day, Independence Day, Christmas/New Year’s holidays);
• Christmas bonus;
• Interest free loans;
• Legal benefits:
  • Compensation for time of service (CTS)
  • Gratuity (July and December)
  • AFP (Retirement pension plan)
  • School supplies (5%)
  • Vacations (1 month)
  • Life insurance
  • Public health insurance (Essalud) or the option to affiliate with private medical insurance
  • 10% of gross income is distributed amongst all employees
  • 6% of Inkaterra yearly benefits are also distributed amongst all employees.

• They can make it to be heads of the different areas of the operating units in the four hotels, administrator, assistant manager or resident manager;
• Manage to assume administrative positions in the areas of accounting, sales, reservations, ecotourism, services, among others.

PROGRAM: Productive and commercial training for local communities.
ACTION: Training workshops have been held to guide, motivate and improve the capacities of local people in the best use of the Amazon forest and soil management, pest control or organic crops, at the same time reducing the volume of deforestation for purposes of establishing agricultural plots, in this way helping to maintain the forests. Training has been referred to issues directly related to productive activities, which have been supplemented by technical assistance from professionals in our NGO Inkaterra Asociación. Training themes were:

• Agroforestry
• Beekeeping
• Fish farms
• Raising wild animals (Zoocrianza)

Agroforestry workshops. The topics dealt with were:

• Bases of Agroforestry and Agroecology in the Wet Tropics and Agroforestry Systems Design
• Agroforestry Technical Knowledge
• Pest Control
• Agroforestry and Planning by Plots
• Agroforestry and Transformation
• Agroforesty Systems and Market Options
• Management of Vegetables and Biological Control
• Soil Improvement and Organic and Inorganic Waste Management

Beekeeping Workshop. Topics dealt with were:

• Introduction to Beekeeping
• Beekeeping from a Commercial Perspective
• Installation and Management of Apiaries
• Management of Beehives oriented to Production

Fish Farm Workshops. This training was practical, in conjunction with the technicians from the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon – Madre de Dios Office. The topics worked on were:

• Bases for Management of Fish Farms
• Implementation and Management of Fish Farms
• Fish Farm Management (July, December 2006)

Workshops on raising wild animals (Zoocrianza).  This training was carried out by professionals who were specialists in this activity, from the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon – Madre de Dios Office as well as from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon of Iquitos-Loreto. The themes treated were:

• Implementation and Management of Wild Animal Breeding Centers (Zoocriaderos)
• Zoocriaderos: An Alternative to Ecobusiness
• Local Experiences

RESULTS: Planting and harvesting profitable crops for the local people, making use of the best options of those products for which there is a demand in Puerto Maldonado, Machu Picchu and the region. Implementing the sustainable development of those communities near the Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica lodge.

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PROGRAM: Improvement of Machu Picchu Pueblo and its surroundings.

ACTION: Currently programs are being developed to improve the façades of the buildings and improve the management of the sunlight entering the Machu Picchu Pueblo.

RESULTS: Research work is being done with the INC (National Institute of Culture), SERNANP (the state entity for the protection of natural areas), the Pratt Institute (USA) and the Municipality of Machu Picchu Pueblo to establish policies to allow implementing the advice of architects, engineers, and technicians to improve the architecture and services for visitors who arrive daily to see the archaeological site of Machu Picchu.

PROGRAM: Sustainable development of Gamitana Farm near the Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica lodge.
ACTION: At the confluence of the Gamitana gorge and the Madre de Dios River is the 24-hectare Gamitana model farm, where the NGO Inkaterra Asociación has been working for 12 years with various crops of fruit trees, tree species and palms, making a model Amazon agricultural station. Inkaterra purchases part of the harvests for use in the kitchen of its Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica lodge.
RESULTS: Continuous and sustainable actions for workers to commercialize products with regional demand. Inkaterra uses this destination as one of its excursions to see how a farm is worked in the rainforest, showing the products harvested and using it as an example for other communal development projects in the area.

PROGRAM: Sustainable development of the smallholders’ plot of the settlers’ community Juan Pablo.
ACTION: Next to the Gamitana farm, the NGO Inkaterra Asociación has been working providing technical support for agroforestry activities and planting of fruit trees on community land.  Located in the community of Juan Pablo, near the Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica lodge.
RESULTS: Cultivation and sowing of products with market demand, which helps the community members have stable and continuous work without generating carbon into the environment.

PROGRAM: Evaluation to help the local communities of Madama and La Tormenta in the district of Las Piedras.
ACTION: The NGO Inkaterra Asociación has been evaluating the Madam and La Tormenta smallholders’ plots near the Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica lodge, to advise them regarding viable crops that can economically sustain these community members who depend on their harvests to live.
RESULTS: Currently this program is finished being.