In 2024, Brazil skilled its greatest yr ever for international tourism. The nation welcomed a document 6,657,377 worldwide vacationers, a 12.6% enhance in comparison with 2023. Brazil’s Ministry of Tourism (MTur), the Brazilian tourism company Embratur, and the Federal Police (PF) launched consolidated information final week.
In December alone, 690,236 foreigners visited Brazil, 11.1% greater than in the identical month of 2023, the third-best December within the historic sequence that started in 1995.
The Minister of Tourism, Celso Sabino, expressed his enthusiasm in regards to the achievement, stating, “It’s a pleasure to share such optimistic statistics for our nation. This enhance displays our efforts to reinforce Brazil’s picture internationally. Our strategic promoting campaigns, the event of vacationer locations, participation in worldwide gala’s, the institution of our UN Tourism workplace in Rio de Janeiro, and the strengthening of home and worldwide partnerships have all contributed to boosting our visibility. This showcases Brazil’s various experiences, together with its pure landscapes and wealthy cultural heritage.”
In 2024, the states of São Paulo (2,207,015 guests), Rio de Janeiro (1,513,235 guests), Paraná (894,536 guests), and Rio Grande do Sul (879,412 guests) emerged as the first locations for worldwide vacationers. Notably, states like Roraima (97%), Santa Catarina (71.7%), Bahia (52.8%), and Pará (47.4%) skilled important will increase within the variety of international guests. These latter states are set to host COP30 on the finish of the yr.
Argentines stay the most important group of worldwide guests to Brazil, with over 1.9 million arrivals this yr. America rank second, contributing 696,512 vacationers, whereas Chileans are available in third with 651,776 arrivals. Moreover, Paraguay and Uruguay mixed accounted for greater than 833,412 guests.
Two out of each three worldwide vacationers who arrive in Brazil accomplish that by aircraft, which continues to be the first technique of entry for these guests, whereas land transport represents 28.7% of the full.
“One of many main targets of the Nationwide Tourism Plan (PNT) 2024-2027 for Brazilian tourism is to extend the variety of worldwide guests and set up Brazil because the main vacationer vacation spot in South America,” acknowledged Minister Sabino. “We purpose to exceed 8.1 million international vacationers yearly, producing over US$ 8.1 billion in income and additional bolstering the nationwide economic system,” he added.
Till November 2024, international vacationer spending within the nation reached $6,620 million. That is the very best quantity recorded for the primary 11 months of the yr since 1995. This determine represents a 5.3% enhance in comparison with the identical interval in 2023 when spending was $6,290 million. Moreover, it surpasses the quantity spent throughout the identical interval in 2014, which was $6,300 million, when the nation hosted the soccer World Cup.
