Originally Posted by Golfingworld

Right first thngs first Airline pricing;to really get that market going, people need to get there for less than £500 or the Euro equivalent all the year round. They don't need to be locked into unchangeable tickets and they need to be able to buy (legally) a one way ticket out of Brasil at a reasonable price. The holday ownership/rental market only works because consumers have flexibility, ease of transport and good value as and when. Markets do not boom where you have to add 6 hours onto your round trip via Rio/SP or Lisbon. If a family of four want to rent and their airtravel excess £1500/2000 then pure economics state it is more viable to go "all inclusive" or "package/pacote" as they get added benefits which would cost them a lot more for a private rental. Owners want to spend longer periods there, so the standard charter, albeit cheap when demand is down will not sell you a 4/6/8 week ticket, all this removes market and consumer flexibility and supresses demand. This currently leaves owners with TAP or the trek via Rio which is ludicrous. To give you an example, lets assume Morocco is now booming and you told all your customers that there are easy cheap and reliable flights from the UK to Fez via Dakar or Abidjan..you'd be laughed out of court! This is what people are being told for Brazil. So until such time as the flight issues are addressed, everything else is pure speculation. If you want to see how it is really done, The UAE have turned an overheated dust bowl into the world's most advancing mega destination and hub in less than 15 years..how....by using their head and getting the airline, pricing and airport in place first and then publicising and marketing it properly..they didn't sit there and say "all the infrastructure will come" they made it come! There are millions of people in South America and likewise in Europe that all want to go to eachother's continent and they all have to pass over a 1000km stretch between Fortaleza and Recife to get anywhere. If and when Natal's new airport happens and the airlines are allowed to grasp the concept of a similar hub as to that of Dubai from NW to SE..then..you can all start counting your pennies...but to promise it, assume it, hope for it or claim it, is somewhat premature until the transportation industry starts doing it. Howdo you get the transport industry to do it..you lobby..you are going to have to lobby because the Brasilian Govt won't do it for you! The alternative is you sell your plots, put the money in the bank and leave your customers with the problem..and in my view that will happen for a long time to come...look at South Africa if you want to see a pattern.

Originally Posted by Golfingworld

Yes but that's personal not business. I don't believe that flights to NE Brazil will increase or get cheaper until real pressure is brought and I don't understand why your industry is not doing the maximum to bring this pressure?

Originally Posted by clairemacintyre1

Hi i see there is a lot of concern about investment in Brazil. I purchased 4 plots of land in Brazil and the process was not complicated. It was all done through a London Law firm.

Do not be scared to invest. I enter the market with a very small capital input and am going to see 100% return.