The Gramado Tourism Festival, to be held in November, will feature exhibitors from Brazil and 30 other countries. Qatar Airways and Emirates Airline will attend, but organisers want more.
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São Paulo – The 3rd Tourism Salon – Routes in Brazil, an event promoted by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism, will open to the public today (18th) in São Paulo (SE Brazil), at the Exhibition Pavilion at Parque Anhembi. The main theme of this edition is Travel Across Brazil in a Single Place. The event
Tourists from the country spent abroad US$ 939 million in April. There was a 25% increase in values as against March. The figures were influenced by the dollar and by the increase of income among the population.
The number of tourists visiting the continent should almost double by 2020, according to a report by the World Tourism Organization. Last year, 44 million people visited the continent, in which there are nine Arab countries. In 2020, the continent hopes to receive 77 million tourists.
According to the director at the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing of the emirate, Hamad Mohammed bin Mejren, at least 20,000 visitors are expected, as against slightly more than 10,000 in 2007.
The city, situated on the banks of the Nile, attracts crowds of European tourists, including celebrities like former president Jacques Chirac. The site, famous for its landscapes and history, also served as inspiration for one of the novels by Agatha Christie.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Expenditures by Brazilian tourists in foreign countries remain high. According to data disclosed today (28th) by the Brazilian Central Bank, foreign spending by Brazilians totalled US$ 751 million in March, growth of 44.1% in comparison with the value recorded in the same month of last year. In the first three months
Costa Cruzeiros sent between the end of last year and the beginning of this year a group of 1,200 Brazilians on cruises around the Arab world, visiting Dubai. Reserves for the next season, which begins in November and ends in March 2009, opened early this month.
Passenger movement in the airports of the region rose 13.6% in the first half. Then came Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Pacific and finally North America. The Middle East also led in the expansion of shipments and unloading of cargo.
The Brazilian-naturalized Jordanian Bassan Giorge Necola Hanna and the Kuwaiti Khaled Rodan are going to launch, this month, resort Termas do Tabuleiro, in Santa Catarina. The hydro-mineral station should be the first enterprise by Baden Baden Hotels and Tourism, a company that belongs to them both. Investment in the project should reach 90 million Brazilian reals (US$ 52 million).
Embratur estimates that the annual expenses of foreign tourists may reach this value up to 2010. Last year the total spent by visitors was US$ 5 billion and, in January 2008, the total reached US$ 600 million.
A study by the Ministry of Tourism and Getúlio Vargas Foundation shows that executives in the sector forecast growth of 16.7% in company revenues this year, as well as the increase in jobs in the trade. The 92 largest companies in the sector were heard, and together they had revenues of 34 billion Brazilian reals (US$ 19.8 billion).
An agreement between the Brazilian government and the Inter-American Development Bank was signed today. The funds will finance the refurbishment of tourist attractions, infrastructure, transport and training.
In the South of Cairo is the Egyptian paradise of monuments. Born from the ruins of Thebes, Luxor houses from the Karnak complex of temples, which is similar to a fort, and the oldest religious centre in the world, to the Valley of the Queens, where the tombs of 80 men and women from Ancient Egypt may be found. Beautiful hotels, built at the site, make Luxor into a city of the present and past.
