Brazil / Natal - Injection Of Funds To Improve Infrastructure Unlocks North East
Thanks to the initial phase of PRODETUR, the Brazilian government’s ‘Action Programme for the Integrated Development of Tourism’, Brazil and its tourism industry have benefited from an injection of more than $670m into infrastructure improvements. This investment has resulted in the creation of 8 airports, construction and improvement of 1020km of highways, recovery of 732,000 sqm of historic heritage sites, environmental preservation of 70,426 hectares and the creation of 149 government bodies to manage these and other tourism activities.