Articles tagged “brazil”

Despite Brazil's infrastructure delays and the rising probability of protests, tourists will still travel to the games, sleep in hotels, and eat local food. Whether the more than $3 billion economic boost is worth the criticism and political strife is yet to be determined.

The campaign is less about getting people to come to Brazil for the World Cup and more about raising awareness of the destination and culture outside of this summer's games in an effort to attract tourists in the long term.

Travel ads can be roughly broken down into two groups, one that goes for the emotional tug of a life-changing journey and the other that keeps it light and bright for worn-down customers.

There will undoubtedly be complications in air travel due to the flood of traffic and questionable airport construction, but the games will serve as a test run to be improved upon before the 2018 Olympics.

Brazil is gearing up for the World Cup and an influx of foreign tourists that will likely last until the 2016 Olympics. Encouraging visitors to learn about its culture before arrival is good for tourists and locals alike.

Are anniversaries and events over-stressed on these lists? It’s refreshing not to see Brazil, in its World Cup, an automatic inclusion of all lists – even if it’s an understandable entry. But would anyone plan a trip to Cape Town just because it’s the World Design Capital?

This list is only slightly more diverse than last year's suggesting that families within the U.S. remain the vacation rental market's top customer.

United States should feel happy about these numbers, and has a lot of potential to up these numbers even further, considering the brand pull of U.S. within Brazil.

A merger between the three airlines based in three different continents would create an economic powerhouse and establish Brazil as the South American leader in aviation, but such a takeover remains unlikely.

What started out as strikes about small increases in public transit rates is turning into a larger issue that will likely slow tourism visits to Brazil over the next few months.