Brazil hosted 2.3 million international visitors in Q1 of 2023

Brazil hosted 2.3 million international visitors in the first three months of 2023, according to data published this week by the Brazilian Agency for the International Promotion of Tourism (Embratur) and Brazil’s Ministry of Tourism.

Brazil’s 2023 visitor total exceeds the 1.9 million the country hosted in 2020 prior to the pandemic, and also surpasses the 2.2 million travelers hosted in the first quarter of pre-pandemic 2019, according to officials.

In a statement, Brazilian tourism officials said the agencies are focused on re-establishing pre-pandemic visitor arrival levels while resuming air frequencies to 2020 standards, said.

Travelers from the United States represented the second-largest source of first-quarter 2023 visitors with 184,300 travelers, behind only Argentina, from where one million visitors originated.

The Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paran and Santa Catarina hosted the largest number of visitors.

The 9.7 million airline seats dedicated to Brazil between April and December of 2023, represents a 26 percent year-over-year increase (two million seats), based on statistics from Embratur and travel research firm ForwardKeys.