Brazilian Municipality of Buzios to Receive EUROAL 2012 Award as Best Sun & Beach Destination

The Brazilian city Buzios, sited in the Atlantic coast, on the peninsula of Los Lagos region and 170 kilometers away from Rio de Janeiro, is going to be given the award as ‘Best Sun and Beach Destination’ during the upcoming edition of 2012 EUROAL International Tourism, Art and Culture Show. The event will be held on May 17 - 19 in Torremolinos (Costa del Sol, Spain).

The merge of groundbreaking policies in order to rekindle its 23 beaches, the practice of sea and air sports, such as free flight; and its attractive architectonic and cultural wealth, have been aspects taken into account by the executive committee of EUROAL during the analysis of candidatures for this tourism award.

This is a one-of-a-kind city, where the primitive harmoniously coexists with the sophisticated. With this slogan, the Prefeitura Municipal de Armaçao dos Búzios has reached out the international market with the promotion of this spa-city that barely counts on 28,000 inhabitants, but attracts some 600,000 tourists a year.

The award delivery is going to be formalized during 2012 EUROAL, where the attendance of Búzios Secretary of Tourism, Cristiano Marques de Oliveira, is expected.

2012 EUROAL will be present at the International Tourism Fair in Madrid (FITUR), within the booth of Torremolinos (Pavilion 3, 3C07). The tourism date, which introduces innovations for this seventh edition and evolves to International Tourism, Art and Culture Show will be promoting its triple situation as exhibition, business and leisure-cultural show; besides a professional debate forum on changes implemented in the international travel industry.

EUROAL, which started its career as Europe-Latin America intercontinental tourism fair, will be welcoming this year, for the first time, destinations from Asia. During the 2011 edition, it counted on the attendance of countries from the Mediterranean arch and Africa that wanted to join the list of 31 countries that participate in a show, which has been considered by the World Tourism Organization the ‘evolution’ of tourism shows and ‘microcosms’ of the tourism world.