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Brazil is New York City’s most important visitor market, says tourism chief
DestinationsAs the head of NYC & Company, New York City’s official tourism board, Fertitta has witnessed the meteoric rise of Brazilian visitors to the Big Apple. Last year, Brazil became the second most important overseas market for the city after the UK: 826,000 Brazilians came to visit, compared with 112,000 in 2006. “We have never [...]
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The tourist attraction soaring above Rio’s most talked about shantytowns
DestinationsTiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed off over the conglomerate of bare-brick shacks that is the Alemao complex of shantytowns. Three years ago, the communities below made national news as law enforcement swarmed up [...]
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São Paulo cuisine reinvents itself with new pride for Brazil’s natural resources
DestinationsLast month Alex Atala was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for taking on “the enormous task of shaping a better food culture for Latin America. His philosophy of using native Brazilian ingredients in haute cuisine has mesmerized the continent.” This week, DOM, his São Paulo restaurant, was voted [...]
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Brazil readies airport security for this summer’s World Cup warm-up
TransportBrazil will expand services and step up security at its airports that will see a surge in traffic in June when an estimated 335,000 soccer fans travel to attend Confederations Cup games, aviation authorities said on Thursday. Civil Aviation Minister Wellington Moreira Franco announced a plan to increase by 77 percent the number of police, [...]
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Brazilian airline cuts capacity and boosts profits
TransportGol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, Brazil’s second-biggest air carrier by market share, rallied after announcing that a measure of profitability increased as the company reduced capacity to boost net income. Shares climbed 4.4 percent to 11.83 reais at 12:58 p.m. in Sao Paulo after earlier rising as much as 5.2 percent in the biggest intraday [...]
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Rio safety fears ahead of World Cup after violence directed at tourists rises
DestinationsA late night outing turned into a six-hour-long nightmare after an American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transit van in Rio while her handcuffed French boyfriend looked on helplessly, in an incident that’s shocked this resort city as it gears up to host next year’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. [...]
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Global emerging markets are already defining the future of tourism
DestinationsNo matter how Cyprus’s financial drama ends, its troubles show yet again that rich countries enfeebled by the great financial crisis remain a weak link in the world economy. By comparison, emerging markets are not only looking stronger but are also contributing more consistently to global growth. At worst, if Cyprus has to abandon the [...]
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Rio de Janiero emerges as Latin America’s burgeoning art hotspot
DestinationsLong a cultural backwater, Rio de Janeiro has taken another leap toward becoming an art hot spot with this week’s opening of a museum built around one of the world’s premier collections of contemporary Latin American art. Casa Daros, a 12,000-square-meter (129,000-square-foot) space in an impeccably renovated 1866 mansion, will house some of the works [...]
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Brazil World Cup won’t overtax travel because locals will stay away: expert
DestinationsIt’s the catchphrase of the year in Brazil: “Imagina na Copa!” The Portuguese phrase, which basically means “Imagine what it’ll be like during the World Cup,” has become a favorite among Brazilians stuck in traffic, or in line at their woefully overcrowded airports. The underlying belief is that the chaos will be worse when Brazil [...]
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Brazil’s Gol just can’t get passengers on board its planes
TransportGol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA’s turnaround plan is faltering as the airline flies the emptiest jets in Brazil. Even after paring its schedule, Gol filled only 64.9 percent of available domestic seats in February, a peak summer travel period because of Carnival. Latam Airlines Group SA’s Tam unit, Sao Paulo-based Gol’s biggest rival in Brazil, [...]
