Brazil

Having recently opened its first branch in Norway, at Oslo airport, Enterprise is now heading for Brazil. The car rental group was already present on the Brazilian market through the National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands. Now it was time to add the group's flagship brand, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which...

Ocean Air's departure follows the company's setbacks in Brazil. The company had been under court protection against bankruptcy for several months due to its insolvency. The carrier had its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) withdrawn by the Brazilian regulatory authority ANAC. The company had been operating in Brazil since...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. There's the Brazil of postcards, sun-drenched destinations that tourists from all over the world dream of. But let's face it: Sao Paulo is not one of them. And yet its inhabitants have no qualms about it, busy as they are fuelling the country's economic engine. While...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. Hôtels Unique As its name suggests, there's nothing ordinary about the Hôtel Unique... As you approach it, you're immediately struck by its silhouette: it's as if a child's naive drawing of a boat - complete with portholes - had fallen into the...

If you have an hour... The hustle and bustle of Paulista can quickly bore business travellers oppressed by traffic. They can take a short stroll in the Parque Tenente Siqueira Campos off Avenida Paulista or, a little further south and much larger, in the gigantic Parque Ibirapuera....

one of the world's top ten economic powers Are the city's infrastructures adapted to the expectations of business customers? Stéphane Engelhard - They are, with a very large hotel capacity and two convention centres suited to international events. Accommodation is easy and affordable. As for transport...

Friday 28 June saw the finalisation of a new agreement on air services between Portugal and Brazil, an open skies agreement which removes the last remaining restrictions on the transport of passengers and freight. Signed between the civil aviation authorities of the two countries, the memorandum of understanding...

BCD Travel is continuing its geographic expansion, strengthening its network in South America. And it is in a key market - the largest economy in Latin America and the ninth largest in the world - that the business travel agency has just moved up a gear. BCD Travel has become 100% owner of %, its former...

Following the agreement reached between Air France KLM and GOL at ITM Top Resa, the Brazilian carrier will be able to benefit from the entire Air France sales force in Europe. "The aim is to position the Air France/GOL alliance as the most efficient and fastest solution for travelling from Europe to Brazil...

Housed in a cylindrical tower designed by Oscar Niemeyer at the end of the 1960s and adorned with gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro's Hotel Nacional will be restored to its former glory from next March. Bringing new life to this establishment, which has been derelict for almost twenty years,...

IDENTITY CARD Area code: + 55; 11 (Sao Paulo), 21 (Rio). Time difference: -3 hours in winter, -5 hours in summer. Currency: Brazilian real (BRL). 1 BRL =0.25 euro (March 2016). GETTING THERE TAM, the Brazilian airline, and LAN, the Chilean airline, have merged and will give rise to a new airline in...

Facing the sea, Rio stretches for almost 80km, with the ultra-famous beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema just a tiny dot on this long postcard. The prospect of the 2016 Olympic Games has changed almost nothing in these elegant, touristy neighbourhoods, apart from a few extra policemen lining the beaches in...

"GL events, a company specialising in the management of event venues and the organisation of major events, was founded in France in 1978. I joined the company in 2006, just before it set up in Rio. Having worked for a long time in Chile and Argentina, my 'South American' profile was very welcome at a time when the...

Rio loves to party, Rio loves to dance, Rio loves to invent. The "marvellous city" has turned this legendary creativity into a real economic force. The Brazilian metropolis is now one of the leading centres for the local creative industry. Nearly 110,000 people are employed in sectors linked to fashion, design,...

"In 2011, three of my friends and I had the idea of launching a crowdfunding website. While this concept was developing around the world, it didn't yet exist in Brazil. One of the co-founders is a musician and tango dancer, I'm a poet in my spare time, and we all have a passion for poetry.

Getting there AIR FRANCE operates thirteen weekly flights between Paris and Rio, with Airbus A330 or Boeing B747 quad-class aircraft. Tel: 0820 820 820 Internet: www.airfrance.fr Getting there AIR FRANCE operates thirteen weekly flights between Paris and Rio, with either Airbus A330 or Boeing B747 four-class aircraft. Tel: 0820 820 820...

São Paulo is a sprawling city with an official population of 11 million. In fact, it could be closer to 19 million, or even 23 million if you include the greater metropolitan area. In any case, these are fluctuating figures, difficult to determine, as São Paulo moves, advances, changes and expands a little more each year... And yet it is this capital...

São Paulo's helicopter fleet will soon almost certainly be the largest in the world. For a long time, it was ranked behind Tokyo and New York, but the newspaper Estado de São Paulo has just published a study that would change the situation in favour of Brazil's economic capital. The story begins in 1994, when the Brazilian government...

"Brasilia? But it's a city with no soul!" scoff the Pau listes and other coastal dwellers. Is it? Well, given the images we've seen of the city, you'd be forgiven for wondering. And while there's no doubting the plastic beauty of the place, it's...