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Hotel sector expects total occupancy of the chain during Rock in Rio

the sector tourist of Rio de Janeiro expects 100% capacity in the hotel chain between the 2nd and 12th of September, when the ninth edition of the Rock in Rio , in Barra da Tijuca, west of the city. The projection is from the Employers’ Union of All Accommodation Means of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Rio Hotels).

According to estimates, the approximately 52,000 rooms in the Rio de Janeiro hotel chain will be occupied during the period, when they will take turns at the Mundo Stage, the festival’s main stage, attractions such as Iron Maiden, Guns N’Roses, Post Malone, Dua Lipa, Coldplay , Ivete Sangalo, Alok, Justin Bieber and Sepultura.

President of Hotéis Rio, Alfredo Lopes explains that the institution already has data on the presence of tourists from 21 countries. Around 360,000 visitors are expected from other Brazilian states and 10,000 from abroad.

“Our expectation was made in view of the occupations of New Year’s Eve and the mid-year holidays. People are eager to get out of the house. Rock in Rio is a major world event and will mark the return of international tourism. Since, until now, we had a tourism that had a base formed only with Brazilian visitors”, evaluates Lopes.

The entrepreneur emphasizes that this is only the portion of the hospitality at the festival, and that visitors will also be sheltered in other types of spaces.

In May, the festival’s organization announced that the structure created for the Mundo Stage will have almost 200 tons of steel, enough for the production of 200 vehicles. The stage will be the largest in the history of the event, which began in 1985. It will be 30 meters high, the equivalent of a 10-story building, and 104 meters wide.

The ninth edition of Rock in Rio was scheduled for 2021, but ended up being postponed to September 2022 due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus.

The health emergency also caused the postponement of the Portuguese edition of the festival, which would take place in June 2021 and was held in the same month of 2022, in Lisbon .

Source: CNN Brasil

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