“The facilitation of visas aims to reduce bureaucracy and, above all, to boost the entry of foreign tourists into Brazil,” Tourism Minister Marx Beltrao said in a statement on his ministry’s site.
According to the World Tourism Organization, this change—moving toward e-visas—could increase international tourism to the country by as much as 25 percent.
‘And while this isn’t a full visa waiver—and as far as we can tell, the price ($160) will stay the same—when getting a visa comes without traffic and wait times and lines and pre-trip stress, we’ll take it’, commented the American magazine The Traveler.
