Brazil

Foreign tourists in Brazil in 2016 Of the 6.6 million foreigners who visited Brazil last year, 56.7% were South Americans, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism's Statistical Yearbook, released today (3). Next were Europeans (24.4%) and Americans (11.2%). Of the five countries that sent the most tourists to the ...

Film co-production The Film Co-production Agreement between the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was enacted this Thursday (30), by Decree No. 9014. The terms of the agreement were negotiated between the National Cinema Agency (Ancine) ...

Credit Card Starting this month, consumers who are unable to fully pay the credit card rate will only be able to stay on revolving credit for 30 days. The new rule, set by the National Monetary Council (CMN) in January, will go into effect tomorrow (3). The measure is part of the reform ...

Aviation and Tourism The world's civil aviation is expected to double by 2030 - from the current 100 thousand daily flights to 200 thousand - and tourism has a fundamental role in this growth. This statement was made by the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Fang Liu, to the Minister of ...

Ancine The National Cinema Agency (Ancine) launched, on Tuesday (28), the 2017 Program to Support the Distribution of Accessible Content in the Cinema Exhibition Segment. The initiative aims to ensure that small releases have accessibility resources for the visually and hearing impaired. The program will contemplate, ...

LGBT tourists The booklet Tips to serve well LGBT tourists produced by the Ministry of Tourism earned the Folder the Gay Oscar 2017, awarded by the Gay Group of Bahia (GGB), and announced on Wednesday (22). In the list of 27 awardees with the Pink Triangle trophy - a reference to the symbol that marked the ...

Free tourism courses in high school For the first time in the country, tourism will be contemplated with free courses to train high school technicians to meet the needs of the travel market. With the inclusion of the sector in MedioTec, a modality of the National Program for Access to ...

Amazon Plants Not everything is forests and giant trees when it comes to Amazon vegetation. In Serra de Carajás, in southeastern Pará, on top of hills 800 meters high, scattered vegetation covers the rusty fields, also known as cangas. A research that ...

Amazonian indigenous tribe In the middle of the Bolivian Amazon rainforest, a group of indigenous people spend their days hunting, fishing or working on crops. For modern science, this lifestyle may partly explain the Tsimané's heart health. According to a study released Friday, that ...

Amazon River The results of the latest research by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes) (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) have discovered that the Amazon marine reef biome, at the mouth of the Amazon River, is the largest marine biome in the world. The researchers found that the region is at least 50,000 square kilometers. The team ...