São Paulo – Foreign tourists are expected to spend up to US$ 9.2 billion in 2014 in the country due to the football World Cup, to be held in 12 Brazilian cities. This is the most recent estimate by the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur), released on Wednesday (01). If this forecast is confirmed, visitors’ expenditures in the country shall represent an increase by 38.5% in relation to 2012, when foreigners injected US$ 6.6 billion in the Brazilian economy.
Embratur does not yet have the final figures for 2013, but up until November, visitors from other countries had spent US$ 6.13 billion in Brazil. The Institute calculates that foreign tourists spent between US$ 6.6 billion and US$ 7.7 billion in the country during the last year as a whole.
Also according to the Embratur forecasts, a record seven million foreigners are expected to come to Brazil in 2014. This calculation is based on the fact that Brazil will host the World Cup, with games from June 12 to July 13 in the cities of Porto Alegre, Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Cuiabá, Brasilia, Manaus, Salvador, Fortaleza, Natal and Recife.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey
