Tourism in Brazil

​Tourism is a growing economy of several regions of Brazil.  About 6.36 million tourists visited Brazil in 2015. It is one of the main destination for tourists in South America and second in Latin America after Mexico in terms of the international tourist arrivals. 

Various tourist agencies in Brazil offer both domestic and international tourists with many options. Natural areas are its most popular tourism product. They also offer a combination of leisure and recreation, mainly sun and beach, and adventure travel, as well as historic and cultural tourism. The most popular destinations are the Amazon Rainforest, beaches and dunes in the Northeast Region, the Pantanal in the Center-West Region, beaches at Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, cultural and historic tourism in Minas Gerais and business trips to Sao Paulo city.

Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI), which is a measurement of the factors that make it attractive to develop business in the travel and tourism industry of individual countries, Brazil ranked in the 28st place at the world's level, third in the Americas, after Canada and United States in 2015. Brazil's main competitive advantages are its natural resources, which ranked 1st on this criteria out of all countries considered, and ranked 23rd for its cultural resources, due to its many World Heritage sites. 

Foreign tourists mainly come from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, the United States, Canada, China, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Chile, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, and Russia.

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