Rio’s Olympic Visitors Likely to Be Different to World Cup Tourists
As Brazil’s heads towards becoming the first country in Latin America to host an Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro can...
January 15, 2016Topic
Rio 2016
Seventy-Five Percent of Staff Fired at the Maracanã in Rio
Three-quarters of the people who work at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro lost their jobs on Monday (January...
January 7, 2016
Parque Radical Opens in Rio’s Deodoro Olympic Sports Complex
The water park in Rio's new Deodoro Olympic Sports Complex "Parque Radical" will be open to the public until March...
December 29, 2015
Special Public Transport Ticket Available in Rio for Olympics
Users of public transport will be able to purchase one ticket to make several journeys during the 2016 Olympic and...
December 1, 2015
Three Aquece Rio Test Events End Over the Weekend
Officials were out in force, volunteers on hand and athletes arrived from all over the world to put three of...
November 30, 2015
Brazil Approves Waiving Visa Requirements for 2016 Olympics
Citizens from the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan should be exempt from visa requirements for next year's Olympics and...
November 25, 2015
Only Briton in Aquece Rio Table Tennis Competition Wins Gold
Forty-four players took to the tables to compete in the Aquece Rio table tennis test event that took place over...
November 23, 2015
Paralympic Boccia Test Event Takes Place in Rio
Twenty-two competitors from five counties battled it out in the Aquece Rio boccia test event on November 12th to 14th....
November 16, 2015
Rio 2016 Will Shine a Light on Brazil, says Tourism Minister
In “O Caminho da Tocha” or the “Path of the Torch”, written by Henrique Eduardo Alves and published in Folha...
November 13, 2015