2000 with the growth of Peruvian gastronomy and specifically the period from 2000 to 2019, the accommodation and restaurant sector improved, growing at 5.1% annually, that is, exceeding the 4.7% growth of the economy. This indicates that in general tourism is an activity that drives the economy as well as generating employment. In this regard, inbound tourism at the end of 2019 reached the sum of 4.4 million visitors and at the beginning of 2020 this sector was greatly affected due to COVID 19, 4 years have passed and although the boom in Peruvian tourism began to take center stage, it has not yet managed to match the figures of 2019. According to Ramos, in his journalistic note published in the Diario la Republica, the year 2023 7was a very bad year, unofficially assuming that by 2024 it would reach 3.2 million tourists and trusting that by 2025 it would be approaching the figure for 2019 (p.12). Figure 1. Evolution of the national GDP and the accommodation and restaurant sector in Peru (1994-2019) Source: National Institute of Statistics and Informatics, 2020. Note: base 1994 - 100. 7 In this regard, according to COMEX (2023), the real value of the GDP of the accommodation and restaurant activity amounted to S/ 15,662 million, 2.7% more than that registered in 2022. In the fourth quarter alone, the GDP of the sector was S/ 4,290 million, 1.2% more than in the same period of 2022. According to Grados (2023), it indicates that despite the fall in GDP in the first half of 2023, the accommodation and restaurant sectors have grown 8%, 747 LEGALITY AND GASTRONOMIC REGULATION OF TRADITIONAL SPECIALTIES GUARANTEED
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