Brazil tourism sector tries to rise from pandemic ashes | Malay Mail

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 27 — With the glittering parades, towering floats and sultry samba postponed by the omicron variant, Brazil will have a carnival week without much carnival this year — bad news for a tourism industry already battered by the pandemic.

That is adding to the agony of a tourism industry only just starting to recover from near-collapse in 2020. “We’ll see some revenues” from the rescheduled parades, “but it won’t come anywhere near pre-pandemic levels,” said Fabio Bentes, an economist at the National Confederation of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism .His research indicates the tourism industry, which accounted for 7.7 per cent of Brazil’s economy before the pandemic — 551.5 billion reais in direct and indirect revenues in 2019 — has lost US$94.1 billion in the past two years, and more than 340,000 jobs.

Nearby, Miguel Viana, a 27-year-old engineer on vacation from Portugal, was on his way to visit the statue.But he is among the few. International tourist numbers remain at just five to seven per cent of pre-pandemic levels, Sampaio estimates.Experts say the drop in foreign tourists has been partially offset by more Brazilians travelling domestically, themselves wary of flying overseas.

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