Tourists who visit Brazil want to return
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.