Brazil gets set for the Festival do Turismo Gramado

The Festival do Turismo de Gramado, scheduled to get started on Nov. 13 through 16, is penciled in as one of the largest Latin American fairs in the business travel industry with an annual growth rate in the double digits.

During the course of the 2002 edition, as many as 1,710 exhibitors from all across the Western Hemisphere showed off their products and services to 10,000 visitors, most of them big-time purchasers from all around Brazil who zero in on deep-pocket people with higher living standards only comparable to those of industrialized nations.