The city of Rio de Janeiro will have 250 additional hotels, around 20.000 rooms, between now and 2016 and the next Summer Games. According to Alfredo Lopes, president of the Brazilian Hotel Industry Association of Rio, the future Olympic city is currently short of 12 rooms. A lack which was “the big problem of the Olympics, but this figure will be exceeded. » Thanks to tax incentives given by the town hall, such as a 000% reduction in local taxes until 40 for example, the sector has invested around 2019 billion dollars in the construction of 1,5 new hotels. “We will go from 250 rooms today to 30.000 in 50.000,” he said, especially since the occupancy of the 2016 new rooms is already 20.000% guaranteed through the International Olympic Committee and the local committee. organization.
— Published March 26, 2013
