Brazil should surpass pre-pandemic levels of international tourism by 2024

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A new GlobalData study, an analysis and consulting firm based in England, while the rest of the world should return to pre-pandemic volume in 2025, Brazil and the countries of South and Central America are more accelerated in this process and can reach this goal by 2024.

According to the source, South and Central America would grow 2.66% compared to international arrivals in 2019. In 2025, the figure jumps to 4.31% more than before the pandemic. Brazil is keeping pace with the recovery: in 2024, the forecast is for an increase of 0.89% over 2019, when more than 6.3 million foreigners arrived in the country. In 2025, the projection is 2.07% higher than in 2019.

“The recovery scenario of the sector is increasingly clear, and we are intensifying our actions with campaigns, presence at fairs and international events, and other articulations,” says the Brazilian Tourist Board (Embratur) president Silvio Nascimento. “We are confident that the increased promotion of Brazilian destinations abroad will contribute to reach and surpass even more quickly the pre-pandemic levels,” he confesses.

According to GlobalData’s analysis, worldwide growth in international travel will be steady until full recovery in 2025. Departures will reach 68% of pre-pandemic levels as early as 2022 and are expected to improve to 82% in 2023, reaching 97% in 2024. Full recovery will occur in 2025, with 1.5 billion international departures.

ROUTE NETWORK

The Brazilian international air network has been an important thermometer of recovery. In April 2022, the sector reached a total of 2,983 monthly flights, according to data from the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac).

The data points to a growth of almost 200% compared to the same period in 2021, allowing travelers from all over the world to have more and more options to travel to Brazil.

From January to April, 122 flights were created or resumed, plus 40 additional frequencies came into operation. By January 2023, 24 more flights are scheduled to come from other countries, and nine will resume or increase their frequency.

Another encouraging fact for the tourism sector is the return of foreigners to the country. According to the International Transit System (STI) of the Federal Police, between January and February of this year, more than 530,000 foreign tourists entered the country.