Our Commitment

Machu Picchu Team promotes responsible tourism practices that prioritize the protection of children and adolescents. Our staff and collaborators are expected to behave professionally and respectfully at all times, particularly when interacting with local families, schools, communities, and minors encountered during tours or social activities. We actively encourage our team to identify situations that may represent a risk and to report suspicious behavior through the appropriate internal and legal channels. Any concern involving possible exploitation or abuse of a minor must be treated seriously and communicated without delay to the responsible authorities when required.

Code of Conduct for Employees and Collaborators

All Machu Picchu Team employees, guides, drivers, cooks, porters, office staff, contractors, and other collaborators are expected to maintain appropriate professional boundaries when interacting with children and adolescents. Staff members must never engage in sexual, suggestive, exploitative, intimidating, or inappropriate behavior toward minors. They must not offer money, gifts, employment, transportation, accommodation, or other benefits in exchange for sexual or inappropriate contact. They must also avoid situations that could be interpreted as grooming, coercion, harassment, or exploitation. Any employee who becomes aware of suspected inappropriate behavior involving a child or adolescent must immediately inform the designated company representative so that the situation can be documented and, when appropriate, reported to the competent authorities.

Conduct Expected from Travelers

Travelers participating in Machu Picchu Team services are also expected to respect the rights and dignity of children and adolescents. Any traveler who engages in conduct that could endanger, exploit, harass, or abuse a minor may be removed from the activity or service when necessary to protect the child, other travelers, local communities, or staff. When the circumstances require it, the matter may also be reported to the competent authorities. Participation in one of our tours does not provide travelers with special access to children, families, schools, or communities beyond the activities formally included and authorized within the itinerary.

Photography and Interaction with Children

Travelers and staff should act responsibly when taking photographs or videos involving children and adolescents. Images should not be taken in situations that could compromise a minor’s privacy, dignity, safety, or well-being. When a child is clearly identifiable, appropriate permission should be obtained from a parent, guardian, or responsible adult whenever required by the circumstances. Machu Picchu Team does not support the use of images of minors for exploitative, sexualized, humiliating, or inappropriate purposes.

Responsible Tourism in Local Communities

Many of our tours pass through traditional Andean communities where travelers may interact with local families and children. These encounters must always be respectful and culturally appropriate. We encourage visitors to avoid behaviors that can unintentionally create dependency, such as distributing money or gifts directly to children without community coordination. When Machu Picchu Team organizes social-support activities, these are coordinated responsibly with families, local representatives, or community authorities.

Suppliers and Business Partners

Hotels, transportation providers, restaurants, guides, agencies, and other suppliers working with Machu Picchu Team are expected to respect child-protection standards and applicable Peruvian regulations. We reserve the right to reconsider or terminate a commercial relationship when credible evidence indicates that a supplier or collaborator has participated in or facilitated the sexual exploitation or abuse of children or adolescents.

Reporting Suspicious Conduct

Machu Picchu Team encourages employees, travelers, suppliers, and members of the public to report any situation that may involve the exploitation or abuse of a child or adolescent. Reports should include as much factual information as possible, such as the location, date, people involved, description of the conduct observed, and any supporting information that may assist with the review of the incident. Reports made in good faith will be treated seriously and handled with appropriate discretion.

Training and Awareness

Machu Picchu Team seeks to promote awareness among its staff regarding the prevention of ESNNA and the responsibility of the tourism sector to protect minors. Our objective is to ensure that employees understand appropriate professional conduct, recognize potential warning signs, know how to respond to concerns, and understand that protecting children and adolescents is a shared responsibility.

Zero Tolerance

Machu Picchu Team does not tolerate the sexual exploitation, abuse, trafficking, harassment, or manipulation of children and adolescents in any form. Any confirmed conduct of this nature by an employee, collaborator, supplier, or traveler may result in immediate operational measures, termination of the relevant professional or commercial relationship, removal from the tour or service, and referral to the competent authorities when applicable.

Our Responsibility as a Tourism Company

Tourism should generate positive opportunities for local communities without placing children or adolescents at risk. For this reason, Machu Picchu Team is committed to responsible tourism, ethical business practices, respect for human dignity, and the protection of minors throughout all our operations.

Our commitment to ESNNA prevention forms part of our broader responsibility to operate tourism services that are safe, respectful, professional, and beneficial to the communities and destinations we visit.