Brazil received a record 9.3 million foreign tourists in 2025

Rio de Janeiro.- Brazil received 9.3 million foreign tourists in 2025, a record number and 37.1% higher than in 2024, achieved mainly by the massive arrival of Argentine visitors (3.4 million), the Government reported this Tuesday. In addition to significantly surpassing the 6.8 million foreign tourists received in 2024, which was a record until now, Brazil also managed to significantly improve the visitor target it had set for 2025 (6.9 million visitors), according to the Brazilian Agency for International Tourism Promotion (Embratur). The progress consolidates the South American country as an increasingly competitive and desirable destination in the global tourism scene, assured the Brazilian Minister of Tourism, Gustavo Feliciano, cited in a statement from the organization.

“We exceeded all expectations and made 2025 the biggest year in the history of international tourism in Brazil. It was a year of records that translated into new opportunities for the population, entrepreneurs developing, and employment and income generated from that economic engine that is tourism,” said, for his part, the president of Embratur, Marcelo Freixo.

The good result was consolidated by the December numbers, at the beginning of the southern summer and the main season in Brazil, when the country received 896,488 foreign tourists, a number 11% higher than in the same month of 2024.

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The main countries of origin of tourists received last year were Argentina (3,386,823), Chile (801,921), United States (759,637), Paraguay (528,000) and Uruguay (524,000). Europeans together totaled 1,274,567 visitors, led by the French (293,000). The result will force the Government to revise its goals for the next two years, as the forecast was to reach 8.1 million visitors in 2027, a number already exceeded in 2025.