5 Oct 2009

UNWTO / RIO OLYMPICS

After Rio de Janeiro won the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the country and South America is now looking to the benefits that tourism will bring from hosting the event. UNWTO

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STORY: UNWTO / RIO OLYMPICS
TRT: 3:09
SOURCE: UNWTO 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 3 OCTOBER 2009, ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN

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3 OCTOBER 2009, ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN

1. Wide shot, exterior, Palace of Independence, Astana
2. Close-up Flags for UNWTO, General Assembly
3. Close-up Kazakhstan flag on top of Palace of Independence, Astana
4.  Cutaway, Mário Moysés, Vice Minister of Tourism of Brazil 
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mário Moyses, Vice Minister of Tourism, Brazil
"For Rio it will mean a lot, a lot of investment, public investment. In transportation, private investment in hotels, in new buildings, in security, in the airports; I think Rio will change a lot from now until 2016. Change for better."
6. Med shot, meeting of the UNWTO, 18th General Assembly
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mário Moyses, Vice Minister of Tourism, Brazil
"We will host everybody with a lot of parties and happiness. But we have to host professionally. So for me of tourism qualification of people is very important."
8. Close-up, Russian journalists 
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mario Moyses, Vice Minister of Tourism, Brazil
"We will do a lot of promotion. We have the 2014 World Cup so this is a big year of opportunity; Aside of the Olympics; and we will also work with our other South American countries to build up the visitors not only to Brazil but to other South American countries like Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile and others." 
10. Close-up, signage of the UNWTO, 18th General Assembly
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Vogeler, WTO Regional Representative for the Americas:
"Rio represents the whole of South America to a certain extent. It is the first time that South America gets the Olympic Games. It is great news for Brazil, it is great news for Rio and great news for South America. And it brings enormous opportunities to expose Rio as a major tourism destination as well."    
12. Close-up, Signage of the WTO, 18th General Assembly
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Vogeler, WTO Regional Representative for the Americas:
"There are challenges regarding safety and security. There are challenges regarding the organization. But the commitment of the people I am sure are going to overcome those challenges."
14. Close-up, TV camera 
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Vogeler, WTO Regional Representative for the Americas:
"This is going to imply an important significant investment obviously from Brazil on the whole. The return is going to be employment. The return is going to be in that all investments which are going to be made are going to benefit afterwards the people that reside there."
16. Close-up, Kazakh journalist
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mário Moysés, Vice Minister of Tourism, Brazil
"We receive around five million people from abroad every year. With the crisis this number of visitors made a diminished a little. But we have a very strong domestic market. I can give you an example, between July and August 2008 and July and August 2009. There was a development of more than 20 percent of domestic arrivals in our country. So we are very strong in our domestic market."
18. Wide shot, General Assembly, registration desk
19. Med shot, Registration for the WTO, General Assembly
20. Med shot, Africa desk, registration for the WTO, General Assembly

STORYLINE:

After Rio de Janeiro won the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the country and South America is now looking to the benefits that tourism will bring from hosting the event.

Infrastructure and revenues from tourism look set to get a boost, in a region that has seen international arrivals drop by one percent from January to July this year, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

"Rio represents the whole of South America to a certain extent. It is the first time that South America gets the Olympic Games. It is great news for Brazil," said Mario Moyses, vice minister of tourism for Brazil.

"We have the 2014 [soccer] World Cup so this is a big year of opportunity; Aside of the Olympics. And we will also work with our other South American countries to build up visitors."

News that Rio de Janeiro beat Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo in a competition to host the games was met with jubilation by the South American delegations at the 18th session of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) General Assembly in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

Rio had the least-prepared infrastructure of the four cities competing for the Games. Now the city will look to build the Olympic Village as well as other developments at a cost of $10 billion.

A total of 25,000 of the 48,000 hotel rooms needed for the event are also in the pipeline, yet the city will look to provide accommodation on cruise ships.

"There are challenges regarding safety and security. There are challenges regarding the organization. But the commitment of the people I am sure are going to overcome those challenges," says Carlos Vogeler, UNWTO Regional Representative for the Americas.

Security issues are improving as the city and Brazil's economy develops, with more than 20 million people rising out of poverty in the last five years, according to the vice minister.

A high speed train between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro costing $20 billion will be constructed. A proposal to revitalize the port area, costed at $210 million, will also go ahead, said the vice minister.

Rio will also look to upgrade its metro system. Currently it does not reach Barra da Tijuca, a suburb on the outskirts of the city. This is where most of the Olympic venues will be situated.

Brazil gets five million visitors a year according to the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, which have only risen by 0.5 percent between 2007 and 2008.

News that Rio de Janeiro won the Games boosted shares of infrastructure and tourism-related companies on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange on Friday.

Rio looks will give Brazil's economy a $24.5 billion boost between now and 2027, according to a government-commissioned study by nonprofit group Fundacao Instituto de Administracao

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