Agência Brasil
Brasília – Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has officially instituted 2006 as Tourism Year. The goal is to bring more foreigners to Brazil and increase domestic tourism.
This year will also be Santos Dumont Year in Brazil in honour of the aviation pioneer who made the first public flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft exactly one hundred years ago in October 1906 in Paris. The date of the flight, October 23, is Air Force Day in Brazil.

