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Brazil travel and tourism set for a great few years

on 03/18/2012 in About Brazil, Plan Your Trip

Brazil is Latin America’s fastest-growing travel and tourism economy; with travel and tourism’s direct contribution to GDP, it is forecast to grow at 7.8 percent in 2012. Research released by David Scowsill, President and CEO, World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) at Fórum Panrotas, forecasts that the Brazilian travel and tourism economy, which contributed US$79 [...]

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Ronaldinho makes preliminary list for Olympics

on 03/16/2012 in General, News, Sports Events Comming

Two-time FIFA player of the year Ronaldinho has been included on the preliminary list of players who could make Brazil’s squad for the London Olympics Coach Mano Menezes announced Wednesday that Ronaldinho made his initial list of 51 players. Other players older than 23 who made the list include Inter Milan goalkeeper Julio Cesar, AC [...]

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Brazil: A nation that makes you want to dance

on 03/12/2012 in About Brazil, News, The Best of Brazil

from: Telegraph.co.uk The old jibe about Brazil being “the country of the future – and it always will be” can finally be laid to rest. Prince Harry, who visited the country last weekend as his four-country Diamond Jubilee Tour, saw firsthand the dramatic changes sweeping through the country. With a burgeoning middle-class and a booming economy – now larger [...]

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