Swampland - Tourists

Of the 100 thousand tourists that seek the Swampland of the South every year in search of the environment, 70% are foreign. They are German, Swiss and Spanish, in its majority, atraídos for the fauna and flora of the 142 thousand square kilometers of plain inundável that it occupies great part of Mato Grosso of the South and Mato Grosso, besides extending for the territories of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Most of those foreign tourists is atraída to Mato Grosso and for Mato Grosso of the South through agencies of tourism and popularization offices installed in Europe and in United States. The search was accentuated soon after for Eco-92, when ambientalistas and followers of the ecoturismo of everyone went back the eyes to Brazil. Today those foreigners, after traveling other traditional tourist points of the country, as Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Mouth of Iguaçu, include with more and more frequency the Swampland in its routes. The result of the foreign tourists' affluence in the State of Mato Grosso of the South already arrives to the annual figure of US$ 60 million. To have an idea of that importance, the total of all the tourism in the State it generates US$ 100 million. The permanence rate in the Swampland is, on the average, of five days –um number about of twice larger than in the visits the Mouth of Iguaçu. The foreign tourists' per capita expense oscillates around US$ 250, almost the triple than the foreigner spend in another points of the country –ou it is, US$ 65. Mato Grosso of the South today is the eighth largest gate of entrance of Brazil. In 93, it received 250 thousand tourists, 150 thousand in search of fishing and 30 thousand Brazilian ecoturistas

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Salatiel Alves of Araújo - Geologist and Specialist in Remote Sensory
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