Significance Today

The UNESCO declared World Heritage Site Chichen Itza in 1988.
2007 Chichen Itza was selected as part of a private initiative, according to the organizers of world's 70 million people to the "new seven wonders". Both the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site as official custodian of such and Egypt (Ancient Wonders of the World: Great Pyramid of Giza) distanced themselves from the personal as a "campaign" without scientific criteria designated choice.

Tourism
Tourism has started more than a century after the American John Lloyd Stephens published the two-volume book, "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan" 1843rd Today, Chichen Itza is the second most visited archaeological site in Mexico. Most buildings, including El Castillo and the Temple of the Warriors were managed by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia closed to public access.