{"id":327202,"date":"2023-03-28T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=327202"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:11:27","slug":"brazil-to-encourage-sustainable-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-to-encourage-sustainable-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil to encourage sustainable tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Promoting <strong>sustainable tourism <\/strong>is one of the priorities of the Brazilian Agency for International Tourism (<strong>Embratur<\/strong>), according to its president <strong>Marcel Freixo<\/strong> (<em>pictured<\/em>). He said tourism is among the five most important economic activities in the world, according to the World Economic Forum, as it is compatible with the challenges of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTourism is an economic activity capable of generating development and conserving nature. That is, it is an economic activity where culture is a value, gastronomy is a value and nature is a value. It is an activity that is very compatible with the challenges of humanity for the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, because it preserves, conserves, creates jobs and generates development. Unlike other economic activities that have negative consequences. Tourism is a solution in itself,\u201d he said in an interview for the show <em>A voz do Brasil<\/em> on Monday (27) in Bras\u00edlia.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Brazil\u2019s bid to host the 30<sup>th<\/sup> United Nations Climate Conference (COP30) scheduled for 2025, the president of Embratur highlighted that the event will gather the main authorities in the world around the environment issue. \u201cWe are talking about one of the most important events in the world, with all the main authorities coming to Brazil, and not to Rio de Janeiro or S\u00e3o Paulo. They&#8217;ll go to Bel\u00e9m, to be close to the Amazon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Freixo, tourism accounts for 8% of the gross domestic product (GDP). \u201cAnd it could account for so much more, compared to the various destinations we have, in addition to being a permanent source of jobs and income, development and fight against inequality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the sector\u2019s challenges, Marcelo Freixo highlighted the need for geeting <strong>more airlines<\/strong> to operate flights. \u201cThe price of fuel has gone up a lot. We know that airlines faced a big problem during the pandemic, but it\u2019s too expensive. So, we have talked a lot with all the airlines \u2013 we want to attract an increasing number of companies, in addition to encouraging major destinations to open new flights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the month, Embratur had disclosed data on the record-high number of tourists in the country in the first months of the year: <strong>1.5 million foreigners entered the country<\/strong>, with a revenue close to USD 1 billion. \u201cIf we continue like this, in the first semester we already beat the record of the last whole years. So, we are surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 marks. This is a sign that the world is looking at Brazil in a different way,\u201d he celebrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-327197\">Valter Campanato\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embratur president Marcelo Freixo said in an interview that the promotion of sustainable tourism is one of the agency\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":327197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[23530,40291,42539,40290,9692,28733,11228],"class_list":{"0":"post-327202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-brazil-tourism","9":"tag-marcelo-freixo-en","10":"tag-marcelo-freixo-en-2","11":"tag-sustainable-tourism","12":"tag-tourism-en","13":"tag-tourism-in-brazil","14":"tag-turismo-ar"},"wps_subtitle":"Embratur president Marcelo Freixo said in an interview that the promotion of sustainable tourism is one of the agency\u2019s priorities.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327202","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\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}