Brazil Tourism: Forget the Gringos

16 April 2012
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According to a recent beyondbric blog post in the Financial Times website, Brazil's tourism industry is the world's least international, with 95 percent of tourism income coming from locals traveling domestically:
“Around the world, the rough average is two thirds domestic spending and one third foreign,” says David Scowscill, CEO of the WTTC. “The outliers are the BRIC [Brazil, Russia, India & China] countries, especially Brazil and China, where members of the new middle classes are starting to travel for the first time, mostly within their own countries,” he says.

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