According to professionals addressed by ANBA, after a period of reductions in the tourist flow to the region, Brazilians have started going after destinations like Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Lebanon. Agencies New Age and Flot, for example, registered a 100% increase in sales of tickets to the land of pharaohs.
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A study about foreign tourists announced yesterday by the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur) shows that 97.2% of those interviewed showed interest in returning. In all, 4.1 million people from other countries visited or did business in Brazil in 2003. In the first half of the year, international tourism generated US$ 1.62 billion to the country. The Arabs are still few, but the government and the sector is interested in attracting more visitors from the region.
The deal was closed last week during the international aviation fair in the United Kingdom. The aircraft will be delivered over the next four years.
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be meeting minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia at the Presidential Palace at 03:00pm today (19). Soon after that meeting, the Brazilian president will participate in a meeting regarding flights to the Middle East. Topics to be discussed include a new flight
Representatives from the company and from the government of the United Arab Emirates met Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in country capital Brasília yesterday. The idea is initially to have a rout between Dubai and São Paulo and, later, another between Dubai and Rio de Janeiro.
Tourism routs are part of the project for revitalization of federal government railways and will be explored by private companies and public organizations. Among them is the Pantanal Train, to transport tourists between Campo Grande and Corumbá (two cities in the midwestern states of Mato Grosso do Sul, the former being the capital). Some are already in operation, such as the Maria Fumaça (a steam engine), in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the Royal Railway Train (in Rio de Janeiro
The document will make it possible to create a direct Emirates Airlines flight between Dubai and Rio de Janeiro. The flight that is in the most advanced level of negotiations is a Middle East Airlines flight between Beirut and São Paulo. Another two Arab airlines are already showing interest in operating routs to Brazil.
Travel News Network should go on air in September, and be transmitted in Brazil and Latin America on the paid television system. Partnerships are also being negotiated with Arab, European, and Asian countries, informed Paulo Ricci, project director of company Mixer, in charge of the enterprise. One of the company partners is filmmaker Carlos Diegues, famous for films such "God is Brazilian" (2002), "Orfeu" (2000), "Tieta of Agreste" (1996), and "Bye Bye Brazil" (1979), among others.
Agência Brasil São Paulo – Minister of Tourism, Walfrido Mares Guia, reports that the sector will get an injection of US$165.6 million (R$483 million) this year in the form of regular ministry budgetary funding, plus congressional amendments to the budget. Mares Guia declared that with the establishment of a Ministry of Tourism in January 2003
Preliminary figures supplied by the official Brazilian Tourism Agency (Embratur) show that the country received 4.09 million visitors in 2003, an 8.12% increase. In the same period, world tourism has dropped 1.2%. The government also wants to promote Brazil as an ecotourism, and adventure, luxury, and business tourism destination.
