The traditional New Year’s Eve party in Copacabana on January 1 (REUTERS/Aline Massuca)

Brazil received in January 868,587 foreign touristssuch as register for the first month of the year and 15.74% more than the same period in 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the government reported on Monday.

The Brazilian Agency for the International Promotion of Tourism (Embratur), with data from the Federal Police Immigration Service, reported that the number of tourists in January exceeded by 109% that obtained last year (275.942).

In January 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, the number of foreign tourists was the lowest in history for the month, with 52,259 visitors.

The January record dates from 2019when Brazil was visited that month by 756,883 people from abroad.

Tourists posing for a photo in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro (REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File)
Tourists posing for a photo in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro (REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File)

In 2022, Brazil registered 2.69 million foreign tourists55% less compared to 2019, the annual benchmark before the pandemic.

For the president of Embratur, Marcelo Freixothe January figures are a response to the “image of the country abroad» recovered with the new government of the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvawho took office in 2023.

“Nobody wants to visit a country that is racist, that persecutes its indigenous peoples, that deforests and pollutes,” Freixo said, without making any direct reference to the far-right leader’s previous government. Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).

(With information from EFE)

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