{"id":198234,"date":"2018-07-26T20:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=198234"},"modified":"2018-07-26T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:55:34","slug":"international-tourist-spending-rose-6-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/international-tourist-spending-rose-6-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"International tourist spending rose 6% in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Spending by foreign tourists in Brazil reached USD 3.24 million in the year\u2019s first half, up 5.94% in comparison to the same period of last year, according to data shown this Thursday (26) by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcb.gov.br\/pt-br#!\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazilian Central Bank <\/a>(BC). The information is from <a href=\"http:\/\/agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country welcomed 3.15 million foreign travelers in H1 2018, up 8% from H1 2017,\u00a0<em>Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/em>\u00a0said, quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turismo.gov.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazilian Ministry of Tourism<\/a> numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data show tourism is a driver of the economy, and must be treated as such,\u201d\u00a0the agency quoted Tourism ministry Vinicius Lummertz as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, overseas spending by Brazilians reached USD 9.57 billion, up 8.72% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani and Gabriel Pomerancblum <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-198229\">Erbs Jr.\/Agif\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending by international tourists in the country totaled USD 3.24 billion in the year\u2019s first six months. Number of visitors rose 8%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":198229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[232,4097,4098,2933,433,2247,4099,3984,28535,3983],"class_list":{"0":"post-198234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-expenditures","10":"tag-revenues","11":"tag-spending","12":"tag-tourism","13":"tag-tourists","14":"tag-travelers","15":"tag-trips","16":"tag-viajantes-en","17":"tag-visitors"},"wps_subtitle":"Spending by international tourists in the country totaled USD 3.24 billion in the year\u2019s first six months. Number of visitors rose 8%. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}