One of the main postcards of Brazil, Iguaçu National Park received 616,900 visitors in 2008, which represents growth of 2.7% when compared to 2007.
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The annual clearance sale lasts one month and involves a large share of the emirate’s retail sector, as well as hotels and airlines. Last year, consumers spent US$ 2.7 billion during the period.
The figures were disclosed by Brazilian Tourism Institute president Jeanine Pires. Brazil received almost 6 million foreign visitors from January to November 2008. Spending exceeded US$ 5 billion.
At the end of the month, Salvador should stage an International Ethnical Music and Dance Festival, from regions like the Balkans, India and the Middle East. The Egyptian Mohamed El Sayed should teach.
The figure is an annual record. There were 9.3 million visitors from Brazil and 1.7 million foreigners. The city posted US$ 3.5 billion in tourism revenues and hotel occupancy averaged at 68.5%.
Rania Al Abdullah, of Jordan, should visit the Apprentice City-School, which offers communications and art courses and activities to youths from 4 to 21 years of age. The project is Unicef sponsored.
Minas Gerais-born belly dancer Mariana Barros is one of 14 girls competing for a US$ 50,000 prize in a show by TV network LBC. She spent 45 days in the Arab country.
The agreement, which forecasts free e-mails and access to new digital technologies to all students and teachers in state schools, makes Brazil the first country to offer this kind of service.
On Friday, 11 students from Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation leave on a student mission to the country. They are going to visit companies, government organisations and other initiatives.
Pointing out the diversity of Brazilian tourism and offering foreign tourists different experiences in a trip to Brazil: These are the main objectives of campaign "Sensational Brazil".
An orchestra includes 19 children who study in public schools and are from a low-income region in Campinas. They are learning how to play instruments imported from Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Palestine.
The figure is from the Air Transport Directory, launched last Friday by the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac). Contributing factors include low tariffs and seat supply higher than demand.
Michel Sallouti, in Brazil for 50 years, is going to inaugurate his first individual exhibit at the West Gallery on Wednesday. Entitled White Souled, Sallouti brings 27 white works.
Architect, designer, art director, photographer, set designer and writer. A grandson of Syrians, Rafic Farah is a multimedia artist who dreams of working with architecture in the Arab countries.
