Season 2018: Cruise tourists start arriving to Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro season 2018: Even going through a bad time, Rio de Janeiro continues to attract many tourists. For example, this month will be given the start for the 2017/2018 Sea Cruises season at Pier Maua (Rio de Janeiro harbor). On October 29th the International cruise Terminal of the wonderful city receives its first atraction: The International ship Oceania Sirena, a small craft and Luxurious with over 800 people on board. From there to the  April 29th, 2018, the operation no longer stops! There will be 94 arrivals, of which 23 are long-haul (international) cruises and 25 ships in total. In this period, more than 380,000 tourists are expected to take advantage of varied itineraries in Brazil.

Tourists are greeted at the cruise terminal located in the 4 and 5 warehouses of Pier Maua. These facilities are located in front of one of the light rails (VLT) stations, the "Ship Stop", and close to the external warehouse, where currently one of its walls houses the work "Ethnia" by Eduardo Kobra. There in the "external", buses and other vehicles are parked to make the transfer of visitors to various points of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Rio Carnival 2018 will have the largest private investment in history

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Something to be congratulated on the Rio prefecture of Crivella is to avoid the use of public money in actions not linked to the public power, but to facilitate that private initiative invest. This has received many criticisms, after all, the Brazilian thinks that government money does not end, that there is this thing called budget.

Then it is to congratulate the Project Carnival Rio 2018, promoted by Riotur, which hit budget record, guaranteeing total private investment of R $35 million, offered by Uber and Dream Factory. Riotur's role in this uptake of sponsorships corroborates the intention of making these events autofinanceable, minimizing the impact on the public budget and attracting private capital to the realization of the largest event in Rio de Janeiro. This figure covers the operational costs of street carnival, parades of carnaval access groups on Avenue Intendente Magalhães, Blocos de Embalo e Enredo, Palcos e Bailes Populares, stages and popular balls.
The investment will be earmarked for structural and planning improvements, including security, surveillance, transit operations, visual communication, medical posts and chemical bathrooms; In addition to five centres of surveillance, installed in the areas of greater circulation. See more beach vacation information

Part of the value collected from the private initiative will also comprise the subsidy given to the Carnival Samba schools of the special group, totaling an investment of R $19.5 million, added only the parcels of the municipality of Rio and Riotur. Liesa, which brings together the 13 associations of the special group, will receive R $27.5 million in total, including still Real $8 million offered by the Ministry of Culture, which presents an increase of R $3.5 million compared to the contribution of previous years.