Lima tourism boost through new flight routes

In late July 2026, Air Transat announced weekly direct flights from Italy (Rome and Venice) to Lima, linking via Toronto or Montréal. The service was promoted as part of Lima’s 2026 culinary tourism push, highlighting the city’s UNESCO‑listed historic centre and cultural attractions and encouraging visitors to use Lima as a gateway to other Peruvian sites such as Cusco, the Sacred Valley and Lake Titicaca.

A week later, a Brazilian travel site offered two‑for‑one airfare deals that combined flights to Lima with either Cusco or Santiago, and a separate itinerary detailed a 20‑day Brazil‑Peru‑Bolivia tour covering major destinations including Lima, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, La Paz and the Salar de Uyuni. These promotions expanded the focus from the initial Italy‑Lima connection to a broader South American market, underscoring a coordinated effort to attract tourists to Lima and surrounding attractions through diversified flight offers.

Together, the snapshots illustrate a growing strategy in mid‑2026 to increase international visitor numbers to Lima by adding new direct routes and offering discounted travel packages across multiple source markets.