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Negotiation began during the visit president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made to the Arab countries in December, informed the official Brazilian Tourism Agency (Embratur) business tourism manager, Lawrence Reinisch, to ANBA. Another company, Middle East Airlines, from Lebanon, is also evaluating the possibility of a flight between São Paulo and Beirut. A stopover in Europe is currently necessary.
Foreign charter flights to Brazilian northeast have shown great increase due to partnership between Embratur, Infraero, and CTI-NE. The main destinations are the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Bahia.
Agência Brasil Porto Alegre – The Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies of Rio Grande do Sul, state in the south of Brazil, says it expects a 50% increase in tourists from Argentina this summer (which begins in ten days). According to the president of the association, Manoel Juarez Limada Silva, local prices are lower this year
"The market has great potential," states official Brazilian Tourism Agency (Embratur) president Eduardo Sanovicz, in an interview to ANBA. During the Brazilian Week & Trade Exhibition to take place in Dubai, apart from attracting tourists to the country, the government intends to capture infrastructure investment.
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – The Minister of Tourism, Walfrido Mares Guia, said today that he is in favor of simplifying procedures for authorizing visas for foreigners, to increase the flow of tourists to Brazil. According to Mares Guia, it would be ideal for this type of procedure not to exist among countries that maintain
