Brazilian Experts Discuss Tourism as Jobs Generator and Poverty Reducer
Written by Newsroom
Friday, 12 August 2005
Specialists attending the second Brazilian videoconference on Improving Regional Tourism Development Programs with the objective of Alleviating Poverty, say that tourism is an economic activity with labor opportunities that can reduce poverty in Brazil.
The idea of using tourism to reduce poverty has been discussed by domestic and international agencies for some time after studies of the social and economic impact of sustainable tourism.
"The objective must be to integrate action in favor of Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Alleviation," declared Maria Luisa Leal, of the secretariat of Tourism Development Programs at the Ministry of Tourism.
According to Marcelo Neri, of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, sustainable tourism works with two types of capital: natural and cultural.
It boosts the small business sector and has broad economic consequences as it involves market analysis, personnel training, cooperativism, public infrastructure, education, credit and, a big positive factor, takes place in the formal job market.
You have to be kidding! written by Guest,
August 13, 2005
Tourists from Canada are one of the state of Florida USA biggest income and job creators in that State economy.. Canadians tourists and snowbird retirees shun Brazil due to the Byzantine bureaucracy of visiting and driving in Brasil. The USA, Mexico and most of Latin America allow Canadians to drive in their states based on their home drivers license qualifications. This is not the case in Brasil.
Canadians, Americans, and British drivers licenses are not recognized in Brasil.. I personally have had several nasty encounters with the Brigada Militar and DETRAN over this issue. I no longer wish to invest in the purchase of property or a vehicle in Brasil.
Brasil looses and Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Columbia win the tourism dollar and retirees seeking a place in the sun.
Canadian Travel agencies, media, and the general population have little or no knowledge of the treasures to be experienced in Brasil.. All that is known of Brasil, North of the equator is Canaval, and Favela gang wars. Not a pretty picture of this beautiful country.
The Ministry of Tourism and Transport in Brasil do nothing to create foreign income creating jobs in Brasil..
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Another Canadian Eh! written by Guest,
August 14, 2005
Cheers to the above writer! How true he speaks. I am Canadian and own several reosrts in the south of Brazil, but it is a difficult to get the message back to Canada about the treasures here and with no help from Embratur.. The worst tourism marketing group in the world. They should look at the CTC or Thailand, or Hong Kong for advice and help on how to really market tourism products!!
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Canadian looking to work in brazil written by kris,
October 04, 2006
I'm a Canadian looking for work in Brazil I have skills in Sales and Markeitng as well as toursim industry any advice?
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area.
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy.
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil.
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms.
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis.
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking.
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse.
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose.
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj).
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
Canadians, Americans, and British drivers licenses are not recognized in Brasil.. I personally have had several nasty encounters with the Brigada Militar and DETRAN over this issue. I no longer wish to invest in the purchase of property or a vehicle in Brasil.
Brasil looses and Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Columbia win the tourism dollar and retirees seeking a place in the sun.
Canadian Travel agencies, media, and the general population have little or no knowledge of the treasures to be experienced in Brasil.. All that is known of Brasil, North of the equator is Canaval, and Favela gang wars. Not a pretty picture of this beautiful country.
The Ministry of Tourism and Transport in Brasil do nothing to create foreign income creating jobs in Brasil..