Travellers go Brazil nuts

More and more people are getting a real taste of dancing the samba by visiting Brazil.

Some 799,763 people visited the South American nation during the month of October, according to BreakingTravelNews.com.

It was a record for the country's tourism industry and brought in a mammoth £340 million.

According to data from the Central Bank of Brazil, that takes the total tourist spend in Brazil up to around £3.6 billion, 16.08 per cent more than was accrued during the same ten months in 2010 (£3 billion).

Flavio Dino, president of Embratur, told the travel website that it was great to see international tourism flourish in the country despite the world being the grip of a major financial crisis.

He added: “The international promotion of Brazil as a tourist destination has clearly played a big role in these new findings.”

Brazil was recently voted third in British Airways winter holiday poll behind London and Jamaica.

Posted by Nicole Maher