Iperú

Iperú Tourist Information and Assistance, or simply Iperú (with lower-case p)[1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ipeˈɾu]) is the Peru tourism office provided since 1994 by the Peruvian government through the Commission for the Promotion of Exports and Tourism of Peru (Spanish: Comisión de Promoción de las Exportaciones y el Turismo del Perú, Promperú) and the National Institute for Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI), to provide domestic and foreign travelers with objective and impartial information as well as support services.

Through this agreement, INDECOPI gave to the new bureau the functions of the earlier Consumer Protection Commission (Comisión de Protección al Consumidor, CPC) in cases against tourism companies.

Local offices can typically handle 5 or more languages with staff on hand at any given time, and provide published materials in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Chinese.

In popular locales, Iperú installs kiosks of tourist information on events or places with large influx of visitors and foreign nationals, such as the celebration of the Inti Raymi in Cusco and the Patronal Feast of Saint John in Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon.

Iperú operates 14 offices around the country, in Amazonas, Ancash, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Cusco, Lambayeque, La Libertad, Lima, Loreto, Piura, Puno, Tacna and Tumbes.