From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Foreign tourists spent US$ 2.195 billion in Brazil between January and June this year, according to information from the Central Bank. The value is greater than the total annual value in any year up to 2002, when revenues added up to US$ 1.998 billion, and is close to the total in 2003, which reached US$ 2.479 billion.
The information includes spending on international credit cards and official money exchanges. The value registered on the first half of the year is 17.51% above the total registered in the same period in 2005, when it added up to US$ 1.868 billion.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey
