Brazil Tourism

Vaccine tourism is becoming increasingly common AFP via Getty Images It started in December 2020 with reports that Indian tour operators were eying up trips to London or New York to transport guests to parts of the world where they could get a Covid-19 vaccination. For the equivalent of $1,777 per person, travelers would stay in isolation for as long as would be required, then visit a health center for the Pfizer BioNTech vaccination, the cost of which would be included in the package itself. Guests would have a small tour of the city before returning home to India. Tour […] More

MATT SMITH: Bumper government spending helped to ease Bahraini residents’ financial difficulties during the pandemic, but the kingdom faces a tough challenge to reduce its deficit and bolster state revenue without harming an economic recovery. Bahrain’s GDP shrank 4.9 percent in 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated, as the pandemic dampened domestic consumption and lowered oil revenue. This contraction would have been more severe without a 4.5 billion Bahraini dinar ($11.97 billion) state support package, which equates to about one-third of annual GDP. The support included a 3.7 billion dinar central bank loan facility to enable loan deferments and […] More

COVID-19 is no longer the Chinese Virus, but the Brazilian Virus God invented to punish Brazil for having the Brazilian Carnival. The global COVID pandemic just became a local issue in Brazil when the minister of tourism concluded the virus is a punishment from Heaven to condemn scenes shown at the world-famous Brazilian carnival UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili had cut a deal with Brazil in return for Brazil voting for him making the Brazilian minister a global tourism player and trendsetter. A Canadian journalist for the Globe tweeted: This minister, like everyone in this government, is a disgrace. COVID is […] More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic. Outbreaks of the new variants — including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines — have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said. “There are active conversations about what could help mitigate spread here, but we have to follow the data and […] More

Ms. Pancochova, a three-time Olympic snowboarder from the Czech Republic, was in the United States training and Ms. Barley, an American, had flown in from Portland, Ore., to visit her. With the United States and Czech borders mutually closed to each other, the women briefly considered walking down the aisle. “For Sarka to get her green card and not worry about if she’s going to be able to come into the States or not because of Covid — it was definitely on the mind,” said Ms. Barley of the potential benefits of getting married. Yet Ms. Pancochova has publicly pledged […] More

[uam_ad id=”317182″] RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez on Thursday, February 11th, unveiled a series of new modular healthcare centers at 19 tourism resorts to treat the novel coronavirus disease. “Argentines have once and for all understood the importance of public healthcare just when the pandemic hit us,” Fernandez said via videoconference at the presentation of the project. According to a statement from the president’s office, “with an investment of more than 2.8 billion pesos (about US$31.65 million), these healthcare units will be dedicated to the emergency care and primary care of patients with COVID . . […] More

RIYADH: Hotels in Riyadh recorded their best month in January since the start of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic last year, but occupancy and revenue levels were still down compared to 2019. According to industry data provider STR, occupancy levels across hotels in the Saudi capital averaged 56.2 percent last month, 23.8 percent down on the same period last year. The average daily rate (ADR) was SR582.92 ($155.45), a drop of 9.9 percent year-on-year. While average revenue per available room (RevPAR) was down 31.3 percent year-on-year to SR327.56, STR said it was the highest it had been since February, when […] More

Photo: Flag of Brazil Brasilia: The Brazilian tourism sector lost 261.3 billion reals ($48 billion) last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities announced. In a report issued on Thursday, the National Confederation of Commerce, Goods, Service and Tourism (CNC) said that the figure represented the period between March and December 2020, reports Xinhua news agency.  Taking into account the entire 2020, the losses totalled to about $51 billion. “It is a huge toll, and recovery will probably take until 2022 or 2023. We have already seen some recovery in trade and agribusiness, but not in the service sector,” CNC economist […] More

Friday, February 12th 2021 – 09:57 UTC Brazil’s Central Bank chief Roberto Campos Neto admitted on Thursday that the January interest fixing rate policy meeting release may have generated more confusion in financial markets, instead of more transparency in communications. Friday, February 12th 2021 – 09:49 UTC Argentina’s Consumer Price Index, CPI rose in January for the second month running 4%, questioning the government’s target of 30% inflation in 2021. In effect twelve-month inflation reached 38,5% in… Read further. More