BRAZILIAN TOURISM BOARD – EMBRATUR PRESS KIT OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES RIO 2016TM Dear Sir/Madam Please find enclosed press information from Embratur (Brazilian Tourism Board). We have compiled some useful data to support your production of materials, and to help you during your stay in Brazil during the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Herein, you will find some relevant information about Brazilian tourism, the Games and their host cities, tips around tourist attractions and key press information. Embratur July 2016 Embratur (Brazilian Tourism Board)’s Office of Marketing and Public Relations E-mail:
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[email protected] TOURISM NUMBERS Base Year 2015 International flights • The number of foreign tourists in Brazil reached 6,305,838 in 2015, a decrease • According to a survey by Embratur, in 2014, there was an increase of 30.97% in the number of of only 1.9% compared to 2014, when the World Cup was, held, and it registered international flights to Brazil, compared with 2010. Latin America remains the region with the highest record number of foreign tourists. In ten years, since 2005, the increase was 17%. quantity of flights to Brazil: it went from 26,624 in 2010 to 34,107 flights in 2014, an increase of 28.10% in The data is from the current Statistical Yearbook of Tourism 2016/Base Year 2015; the air network. • The expenditure of foreign tourists in Brazil in 2015 reached US$ 5.844 billion, according to data from the Central Bank of Brazil.