To slightly less than three months of the opening of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, 90 % of the hotel capacity in this Brazilian city was already reserved.
"The expectation for the Olympics was overcome and we hope that the rate of occupation after the games follow so high", reported to the EFE agency the public relations director of the governmental Brazilian Enterprise for Promotion of Tourism (EMBRATUR), Sergio Flores.
According to data from the Brazilian Association of Industry of Hotels (ABIH) cited by Embratur, tourists already reserved the 98 % of the capacity of the five star hotels in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympic period and 88 % of those of three stars.
In Barra da Tijuca, the neighborhood in the west of the city that concentrates most of the Olympic facilities, the occupancy rate for the games arrives at 96,69 %.
The demand is greater in Ipanema and Leblon, districts in the south zone that have beaches and in which reservations already arrive at 98 %.
According to a study of the Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau, hotel occupancy in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics will be in a 208 % higher than that recorded in the Soccer World Cup 2014, of that Rio de Janeiro was one of the twelve headquarters.
This will be possible due to the fact that, depending on the ABIH, Rio will in August next to some 52,000 hotel rooms, well above the 32,000 rooms available before the World Cup.
The number of rooms available at River during the Games will almost double the 27,800 demanded from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) when it gave in 2009 the right to organize the event.
In accordance with the EMBRATUR, Rio de Janeiro can attract during the Olympics between 350,000 and 500,000 foreign tourists, a significant number for a country which, like Brazil, received only 6.3 million foreign visitors throughout the past year.
Of tourists who already have hotel reservations for the period of the Olympic Games, a 63 % indicated that will remain on average, 14 days.
The good result of the world, with the great satisfaction expressed by tourists and no records of incidents, left a positive image to the world. Brazil has reinforced the idea that is an excellent receiver of large events.