WHY BRAZIL ?

Because Brazil is the country that gave birth to carnival, the dazzling costumes and glorious beaches of Rio de Janeiro, will allure you to the rhythm of the Samba. The mix of colors shows Brazil’s great diversity. It has a hospitable spirit unequalled anywhere else in the world. The country of Soccer, good food, exotic beaches, rainforest, waterfalls, and many other topics make Brazil come together and the ideal destination for those who wish to be well received and treated as if at home. This is a place where many people leave their hearts.

Indubitably it is an ideal destination for travelers that deserve a very luxury custom program, service and money wise tour provider. It’s obvious that so many costumes arrive home already day dreaming of returning.

Brazil is a unique mix of races, Breath – taking Mountains, Amazing wild life, and a great pleasure. Come and get a glimpse of Brazil rich biodiversity. Those who come, fall in love.

Large International Hotels and good quality of service area way of life. Growing numbers of tourists are coming to Brazil, and in the last 5 years the number has grown 10 % and continues.

From Amazon to Iguassu Falls it’s a fantastic scene with beautiful views of cities, Unbelievable forest and happy and smiling people. From the big cities to the little ones, you arealways going to find many magic spots and a reason to come back to a paradise named Brazil.

The beauty and excitement of Brazil is vast, but for those who do not have months to explore her riches, we have selected several gems that will give you a wonderful experience of the best Brazil has to offer.

Buzios – What was once a quaint fisherman’s village is now an international hotspot for tourism. Buzios attained international attention when the renowned actress, Brigitte Bardot began to frequent the sultry peninsular paradise.

Rio de Janeiro – O Rio, Rio how lovely art thou, Rio! Rio de Janeiro is without a doubt one of the most popularly visited spots worldwide. If you think about it, it really has it all—the mountains, beaches, Arts, museums, sophisticated and bargain shopping facilities of all kinds, historical sites, red hot night life, and the list goes on forever.

Sao Paulo – The third largest city in the world and the financial center of Brazil, Make Sao Paulo a very special place for Business and Tourism. When you think of the largest world cities, Sao Paulo ranks highly on the list. It is home to 19 million people, including vast numbers of Lebanese, Japanese, and Italian immigrants.

Salvador – The name means savior and was actually the first capital of Brazil ( the current Brazilian capital is of Course Brasilia ). Salvador is the capital of the enormous state of Bahia. This quaint yet prodigious city is the site of colonial style houses and beautiful old catholic churches.

Bristol Dobly Viale Cataratas | Paraná

The Brazilian authorities are concluding the contractual conditions and the formal procedures for the construction of the Brazilian high-speed train connection (TAV), that will connect Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo and Campinas. The procedure should grant the project to the best proposal in terms of quality x price. Terms and conditions shall be published by September 2009 and the interested parties will have to deliver their proposals by December. Brazil expects to announce the winning company/consortium by the second semester of 2010. The train connection must be fully operational by early 2014.

To whom it may concern, the initial evaluations made on the construction costs and return yields of the first Brazilian high-speed train is available at http://www.tavbrasil.gov.br (only in Portuguese).

According to the Annual Survey of the Global Language Monitor (GLM) , the North-American organization that documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon English, São Paulo is ranked on the eighth position on the published articles (printed and internet) about the international fashion world. Among the top ten (from thirty) of the GLM list, were Milano, New York, Paris, Rome, London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Sydney and Las Vegas.

According  to  Caio  Luiz  de  Carvalho,  president  of  the  Tourism  Board  of  the  City  of São Paulo  (SPTuris)  and  former  president  of  EMBRATUR,  this  reflects  the  quality  of the  work being  done. “This  achievement  crowns  an  excellent  design  developed  in  São Paulo.  Our  objective  is to  motivate  more  and  more  creative  economical  activities  and  further  explore  the  city talent.  This  is  our  most  important  asset” (…)  “By  doing  so,  we  will  be  able  to  see  more  frequently  the  rise  of  people  such  as  Paulo Borges,  who  started  here  and  believe  in  the potentialities  of  São Paulo”,  stated  Caio  de  Carvalho,  referring  to  the  founder  of  the  São  Paulo  Fashion  Week (SPFW).

is held twice a year at Ibirapuera Park Convention Center, in São Paulo. It began in 1996, when the event was known as Morumbi Fashion Brazil. The event got its current name in January 2001. Today, it’s the most important fashion show in Latin America and appears among the major fashion weeks in the world. It happens twice a year – in January, featuring the fall collection, and in June, with the spring collection.

Porto de Galinhas,  in the State of Pernambuco – considered as one of the most beautiful beaches of Brazil – reportedly announced to be ready to compete to host the next Brazilian National Tourism Mart (BNTM), the largest tourism fair of the Northeast of Brazil. The announcement was made by the Porto de Galinhas’ Hotels Association and came very much as surprise, because it competes with the candidacy of nearby Recife and Olinda.

Porto de Galinhas has a well developed hotel infrastructure. This, allied with its magnificent natural beauty, may lead BNTM 2010 be organized again outside a State Capital (in 2004, for example, BNTM was organized in Costa do Sauípe, situated North of Salvador, Capital of Bahia).  Be it in Porto de Galinhas or Recife/Olinda, Pernambuco`s BNTM will certainly provide excellent business opportunities.

In the July edition of Brazil Insight, we published an article about the Dutch-Brazilian initiative to simultaneously issue commemorative postal stamps on the Dutch presence in Brazil. The stamps were issued this month. Due to the overwhelming number of e-mails asking more background information on the stamps, their designs and how to obtain them, we are delighted to write more about it.

Both series were issued after Minister Carlos Alberto Asfora, of the Brazilian Embassy in the Hague, suggested to TNT Post, in 2006, to have a joint emission with EBCT (the Brazilian postal service), around the subject of the important legacy of the Dutch period in Brazil, in the 17th century. The period, known to all Brazilians as “o Brasil Holandês”, was centered at Mauritsstad, present-day Recife, in Pernambuco State, under the rule of Johan Maurits van Nassau, known in Brazil as “Maurício de Nassau”. After giving the idea a considerable amount of thought, TNT Post liked it so much that it even extended it to other countries with a Dutch cultural heritage. The first series was issued by TNT Post in 2008, together with the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, and the second is the Brazilian one. Subsequent contacts between the Embassy, EBCT and TNT Post resulted in the production of the two countries’ stamps series, which are being made available exactly at the same period, (early August 2009).

The Brazilian stamps were issued under the series “Diplomatic Relations” of Correios (the Brazilian Post Office) and were created by Brazilian designer Miriam Guimarães. It is a page containing six stamps named “The Dutch Presence in Brazil”. The first stamp shows a portrait of Johan Maurits van Nassau by Pieter Nason. The following ones are the Vrijburgh Palace, built by Johan Maurits in Recife, and the “Zutphen” (the mothership of Nassau’s fleet), both partial reproductions of Frans Post’s paintings; Dutch pipes found in the archeological excavations of Fort Orange (which is situated at Itamaracá Island, on the Northern coast of Pernambuco State, a few miles from Recife); and two recent photographs of Recife: the Governor’s Palace, called Campo das Princesas, built in 1786 on the grounds where Johan Maurits built his Vrijburgh, and in front of which stands since 2004 a bust of the former Dutch governor; and Rua da Aurora (Dawn Street), on the Capibaribe riverbanks in the old city center, illustrating a group of old houses, reminiscent of Dutch canal houses. The stamp sheetlet bears the map of Mauritsstad, built for the West Indies Company by Nassau, which was also the administrative and cartographical center of the West Indies Company in the Americas in the period, and is adorned with a drawing of the flying ox (o boi voador), a  well-known episode in Nassau’s period at Recife.

The Brazilian stamps are available at the website of Correios (Portuguese only) – CLICK HERE to access directly the ordering page.

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The Dutch stamps were printed under the series “Grenzeloos Nederland” (Netherlands without borders) of Dutch TNT Post and were created by Dutch designer Ariënne Boelens. They are six stamps printed in three different thematic pages. The main topic of the TNT stamps is Johan Maurits van Nassau, who paid an important contribution to the Brazilian history. Beside other contributions, he took with him to Brazil scientists and artists, who carefully described, drawed and painted innumerous species of the Brazilian flora and fauna. Scientists like Georg Marcgraf and Willem Piso were responsible for the “Historia Naturalis Brasiliae”, a scientific publication  (1648) which constituted the first and, for many decades, the most important document on the Brazilian flora and fauna. Ariënne Boelens selected three main topics to design the stamps: “Historia Naturalis Brasiliae”, the design of the city of Mauritsstad and the colony and the Tarairiú indigenous tribe with its war dances and rituals.

The first thematic page bears pictures and descriptions of two plants from the Brazilian flora: the passion-fruit (“maracujá”) and its flower, and the cashew plant, with its cashewnuts and fruit (cashew apple), both Brazilian native plants that are widely consumed worldwide today; the picture in the stamp sheet shows a number of pages of the “Historia”, pictures of indigenous fishes and mammals and a portrait of Johan Maurits van Nassau, which appears in the other sheets as well. On the edges, there’s additional information on the contents of “Historia” and the Dutch colonization of the Brazilian Northeast. The second page features the Tarairiú Indians as painted by Albert Eckhout, their martial dances traditions, and a photo of the Capoeira, the Brazilian contemporary martial art/dance, which is also widely popular in Brazil and abroad nowadays. The third and last page reproduces the palace of Vrijburgh by Frans Post, a historical map of Mauritsstad, the Rijksmuseum’s “Ruins of Olinda” by Frans Post, and a partial reproduction of another Frans Post painting depicting a sugar mill near Recife. The ever-present Dutch bicycle is shown against a contemporary Brazilian landscape and a present-day Dutch settler in Brazil looks out over his farming lands.

The “Grenzeloos Nederland Brazilië” stamps are available at the website of TNT Post – CLICK HERE to access directly the ordering page.

During the last Salão São Paulo de Turismo (São Paulo Tourism Fair), Mrs. Jeanine Pires, president of the National Tourism Board of Brazil (EMBRATUR), signed a technical cooperation agreement with the Brazilian Luxury Travel Association  (BLTA) to further support the promotion of some key luxurious Brazilian tourist destinations abroad.

The BLTA was created in 2008 and gathers the very best hotels, resorts and VIP inbound operators of the country, with the objective to promote abroad the most authentic, glamorous and sophisticated Brazilian experiences to the international upscale travel market.

The agreement aims to bring such destinations more in evidence abroad by participating in specific international tourism fairs, editing promotion material, organizing workshops, organizing press-trips and familiarization tours for foreign tour operators active on this market segment and compiling more data of the outbound potentialities of each market.

Copacabana Palace – Rio de Janeiro

Among the most important luxurious destinations of Brazil are the beaches of Angra dos Reis and Paraty (Rio de Janeiro State), Florianópolis (Santa Catarina State), Fernando de Noronha Island (Pernambuco State); on the nature front are Amazonas State, Lençóis and Chapada Diamantina (Bahia State), Iguassu Falls (Paraná State), Lençóis Maranhenses (Maranhão), Pantanal (Mato Grosso do Sul State); and the biggest State capitals, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Recife, as well as the nation’s capital, Brasília.