The cost of a hotel stay in one of the Brazilian host cities during the World Cup Period (12th June to 13th July) will be an average of £143, according to data form hotel search website trivago.co.uk. This will increase to an average of £187 on match days. Brasília and Manaus are the two most expensive destinations, making England versus Italy and the play-off for third place two of the most expensive matches for a hotel stay.
An additional 3.7 million people are going to visit Brazil this year as the football fever grips the country, according to an infographic developed by eRevMax, the leading channel management and connectivity solution provider. The Infographic Brazil 2014: Capture the Craze, based on several market studies sheds key insights on Brazil Hospitality Industry and suggests hoteliers to have a balanced mix of global and regional channels in their distribution portfolio.
This article analyzes hospitality markets in six major Brazilian cities – São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre and Salvador – discussing key performance indicators in 2013 vis-à-vis past years.
InterContinental Hotels Group, one of the world's largest hotel companies, makes its return to the Rio de Janeiro market with the signing of the new-build Holiday Inn® Porto Maravilha and Holiday Inn Express® Porto Maravilha hotels. The 32-story hotels will be located in Rio de Janeiro's revitalized downtown area of Porto Maravilha. The hotels, owned by Odebrecht Realizaçöes Imobiliárias and FII PM Caixa Fundo de Investimento Imobiliário Porto Maravilha, will be managed by IHG.
The Gavea Tourist is an empty shell of a hotel, a 14-story modernist monument of disintegrating concrete and decaying beauty that has been abandoned for four decades. It is one of three huge, architecturally stunning ghost hotels in Rio de Janeiro, all of which are vacant in a city facing a shortage of rooms for June’s World Cup soccer tournament. Rio could use the Gavea Tourist’s 400-odd rooms. Instead, it is an emblem of the obstacles that hinder Brazil’s World Cup preparations: cumbersome bureaucracy, a slow-moving judiciary and a lack of imaginative planning.
TRUMP HOTEL COLLECTION, the next generation of luxury hospitality, and LSH Barra S.A. announce the development of Trump Hotel Rio de Janeiro. Located in the posh Jardim Oceanico sub-district of the famous Barra da Tijuca borough and facing one of Rio's most magnificent beaches, the 13-story, 171-guestroom Trump Rio will be TRUMP HOTEL COLLECTION's first property inSouth America and the only luxury hotel in the neighborhood when it opens in 2016.
Travellers have already started searching for their hotels during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, according to hotel comparison website www.trivago.co.uk. Brits accounted for 29.1 per cent of all hotel searches made on trivago during June, July and August 2013 for any Brazilian city during the World Cup period (12th June to 13th July 2014).
Atlantica Hotels International today announced the signing of the Radisson Hotel Rio de Janeiro, scheduled to open January, 2014. The converted landmark beachfront hotel will offer 292 guestrooms and suites, and will be the eighth Radisson hotel in Brazil. Over the next five years, an investment of $5.5 million in enhancements will be made to the hotel.This is a fantastic addition to the Radisson portfolio.
Hilton Worldwide has announced that it has signed a management agreement with Carvalho Hosken Hotelaria Ltda. for the 298-room new-build Hilton Barra, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil - Hilton Worldwide's first hotel in Rio de Janeiro. The project, currently under construction, is expected to open in June 2014 and will provide travelers a new place to stay during the 2016 Summer Olympics.
World's leading travel trade show collaborates with ABAV – A Feira de Turismo das Américas: ITB Academy to hold three days of seminars at Brazil's B2B trade show – programme includes up-to-the-minute topics: CSR, Business Travel, MICE and Gay and Lesbian Travel – ITB Berlin represented with its own stand
Brazil Hospitality Group hereby announces that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with PDG for the management of a hotel project to be developed in Campos de Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro state. This will be the second project operated by BHG in the municipality: in December 2010, the Company announced the construction of a 140-room Tulip Inn hotel in the selected services standard under development in the same city.
The two biggest sport events on the planet are causing huge investments in Brazil: According to an analysis conducted by GTAI (Germany Trade & Invest) approximately 40 billion Euro in 12 cities are expected to be invested for the FIFA World Cup (12th June until 13th Juli 2014) and for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (5th until 21st August 2016). Infrastructure investment plans include airports, stadiums, local public traffic, security, energy, environmental technology as well as hotels. An analysis carried out by TOPHOTELPROJECTS, the leading online database for global hotel construction projects (www.tophotelprojects.com), revealed that currently 18 new international first class and luxury hotels with about 2,800 guest rooms are in the development pipeline.
Under the leadership of Håkan Ericsson, president, CWT Americas, one leadership team will now oversee operations across the Americas. André Carvalhal will assume the expanded role of regional general manager for Latin America, based in Brazil. He succeeds Marino Faccini, who is retiring after a successful 43-year career at CWT. Carvalhal has been with CWT since 1997 and has successfully led CWT Brazil for the past five years throughout a period of extensive growth in the country.
The Hotel Fasano was the talk of Rio in 2007, eclipsing the fabled Copacabana Palace as the top play den for Brazil’s rich and famous. While the initial hype may have faded and celebrity sightings are less common, the Philippe Starck-designed hotel still retains an aura of exclusivity, especially from its bossa nova-chic lobby and sexy rooftop pool. Almost makes you feel sorry for those slumming it down below on Ipanema Beach
Key players from the Hotel & Tourism Business World will be together once again under the premise “Rethinking, Recreating, and Reinventing the Hospitality Industry.” It will be a great chance to exchange information related to investment opportunities in the region.