Rio de Janeiro registered 10% more Brazilian and Foreign tourists during the carnival than in the same period last year. The estimate is by the Riotur, the municipal organization responsible for promotion of Rio. The city received approximately 730,000 tourists and the occupation rates in its hotel infrastructure was 94%. According to Municipal Tourism Secretary [...]
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Brazil is ‘dancing through the crisis’, reports FT
Financial Times published yesterday a special report about Brazil. In its front page, the correspondent in Sao Paulo Jonathan Wheatley stated that Brazil is ‘dancing through the economic crisis’. The publication starts from a personal focus on the owners of a Brazilian micro-distributor who are investing more in their business in Recife (north-western Brazil), passes through the [...]
Carnival climate in Brazil, as property market celebrates new record growth
The property market in Brazil has celebrated the news that a new record growth has been achieved, to show that the credit crisis has not reached the South American country. Housing credit has closed 2008 with 299.746 properties financed, the highest number ever and a rise of up to 53% over 2007. According to ABECIP [...]