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.
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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.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Itaipu hydroelectric power plant, in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, received 647,677 visitors last year. They came from both banks, the Brazilian and Paraguayan. On the Brazilian side, came 479,359 and on the Paraguayan side, 168,318 visitors. According to a study
The Great Brazil Express starts operating in April this year. Official inauguration took place in the city of Morretes, on the coast of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, and opens a new niche for the tourism market in the country. The composition is going to run a distance of 500 kilometres in the state and the forecast is to attract 2,100 foreign tourists per year.
An agreement between the Brazilian Institute of Gems and Precious Metals and the Ministry of Tourism forecasts the establishment of tourist routes in the gems, jewel and precious stone circuits of the states of Minas Gerais (SE Brazil) and Rio Grande do Sul (S). The idea is to attract foreigners connected to the sector, in the business area, as well as geologists, gemmologists and even museum representatives.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Data disclosed today (28th) by the Brazilian Central Bank have confirmed the estimate that 2007 would be the best year in the history of Brazilian tourism in terms of expenditures by tourists who visited the country. As the inflow totalled US$ 469 million in December, revenues from tourism last
Contracts signed by the Brazilian company total US$ 6.9 billion and involve twenty-two A350 XWBs, four A330-200s and twenty A320s. Presently, the company owns a fleet of 109 aircraft and flies to 47 domestic destinations and 11 foreign.
