Brazil will celebrate tourism and Santos Dumont in 2006

02/01/2006 - 13h48

Carolina Pimentel
Reporter Agencia Brasil

Brasília – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has officially instituted 2006 as Tourism Year. The goal is to bring more foreigners to Brazil and increase domestic tourism.

This year will also be Santos Dumont Year in Brazil in honor of the aviation píoneer who made the first public flight in a heavier-than-air powered aircraft exactly one hundred years ago in October 1906 in Paris. The date of the flight, October 23, is Air Force Day in Brazil.

Translation: Allen Bennett