See also: ABAV Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 ABAV is the Brazilian Association of Travel Agents, and ABAV has wrapped up its great shebang of a 42nd annual congress just this last weekend in São Paulo’s city-within-a-city Anhembi convention center. But this was not exactly your father’s annual ABAV convention. Brazil’s snappy …
The skies between the U.S. and Brazil have never been as crowded as, say, between the U.S. and the UK. But efforts to connect the two most populous countries in the Americas have nevertheless taken some unusual turns over the years — however short-lived. Hard not to remember, for example, Omar Fontana’s luxurious service between …
It used to be that the annual convention of the Brazilian Association of Travel Agents, or ABAV, devoted mornings to plenary sessions and workshops and afternoons to milling and contact-making in the exhibition hall. This year the educational program, in what is being called the Vila do Saber or, in English, Knowledge Village, is running …
The 42nd annual congress and expo of the Brazilian Association of Travel Agents, or ABAV, kicked off yesterday evening, Tuesday, during an unaccustomed lull in Brazil’s still jam-packed event cycle. Brazil had not hosted a World Cup in nearly three months. It had not hosted a World Youth Day together with a Papal visit in …
The Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil At this writing, Brazil has just completed its two great critical dress rehearsals. For the whole of the second half of the recent month of June, this country that still has at least one of its feet stubbornly stuck in the Third World (and the middle …