TOURISM


Brazil is preparing for one of the biggest events in the world that is the football world cup.The 2014 World cup is the first global football championship held in South America in the last 40 years.
This year Brazil is expecting twice the number of visitors that this country has in normal years because the World cup. Although there are two main reasons why Brazil is not so popular, one is that is very far away Europe and flights costs make it an expensive place to visit and the second reason is the countries crime rate that has been scaring off many tourist.
Brazil economy is getting better; they are improving infrastructure and projects for the future. Airports, roads are being built, the public transport, new hotels, and more and more people are being employed.
Brazil during the World Cup is expecting over half a million of visitors. Tourist organizations hope that this will get a lasting impression of the country so that they might come back sometime.
12 cities are preparing to host the matches of the World cup and also wants to show the world that it cannot only play football and dance samba that also the can organize high scale events.