What Do Foreign Tourists Spend in Peru? Spending per Trip and per Night by Market, Trip Style and Lodging, with Prices, Exchange Rates and Arrivals, from PROMPERU, MINCETUR and BCRP Data, 2005–2026

Daily travel budgets for Peru are widely quoted but rarely traced to official data. We use PROMPERU's 2025 foreign-tourist profiles, earlier survey editions, the MINCETUR tourism compendium, central-bank price and exchange-rate series and World Bank purchasing-power data. Foreign tourists spent USD 1,232 per visit in 2025, excluding the international ticket, over an average of 10 nights: about USD 123.20 per night. Across 18 home markets, spending per night ranged from about USD 82.0 (France, 22 nights) to USD 242.0 (Japan, 8 nights), 2.95 times as much. Vacation travellers who bought through an agency spent USD 1,933 per trip, 1.87 times the USD 1,035 of those who arranged their own trip, and 33% of vacation travellers spent under USD 500. Registered lodging recorded 14,510,662 foreign nights in 2025, 98.1% of 2019, with 42.9% in Lima and 31.9% in Cusco, and 1.79 nights per check-in. International tourist arrivals were 78.1% of their 2019 level, but balance-of-payments tourism receipts reached USD 5,351 million, 13.8% above 2019. The dollar bought S/3.563 on average in 2025, 8.1% fewer soles than in 2021; Peru's household price level rose from 49.4 to 54.0 (US = 100), and the price of restaurant meals in Lima rose 30.4% between December 2019 and December 2025 against 25.8% for all items. Peru's per-night figure was 1.19 times Colombia's daily figure and less than half of Hawaii's. All inputs are public.