The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) will launch a business mission to Egypt on October 9 at 3:30 pm. The mission ls slated for November 13 and 14 and will be led by foreign minister Aloysio Nunes. The launch event will take place at the offices of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo. Executives from companies looking to join can get in touch with the Chamber to register.
The event will feature presentations by the director of the Ministry's Trade and Investment Promotion Department, Orlando Leite Ribeiro, Apex business director Marcia Nejaim and Arab Chamber CEO Michel Alaby. The mission to Cairo (pictured above) will focus primarily on housing and construction, healthcare, agribusiness, food and beverages, and machinery and equipment. “The mission could open the market for new fields,” said Alaby. Read all about it in a story from Isaura Daniel.
And Apex-Brasil is holding a contest to choose the architectural plans and exhibition design for the Brazilian pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020, set to take place in the emirate from October 2020 to April 2021. The space will be themed “Together for diversity.” Registration will be open until October 27, with preliminary designs due for submission from October 31 to November 5.
And Dubai is expecting to see an upsurge in tourism leading into Expo 2020. The goal is to get between 23 million and 25 million visitors a year until 2025. "Our goal is to achieve the sustainability of the tourism sector after Expo 2020," Dubai heir prince Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.