An independent travel guide to Brazil, published in six languages by two people who work in Brazilian tourism and live in the middle of it. Not a government site, and it does not pretend to be one.
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What this is
Tourism Brasil is an independent publication about travelling in Brazil. It covers all five regions of the country — cities, coast, interior, rainforest and wetland — and it is written for someone who has decided to come and now has to work out where, when and in what order.
It is published in English, French, German, Italian, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. English is the original; the other versions are written from it rather than run through a translation widget.
Who writes it
The portal is run by two people, not by an agency and not by a content farm. Both work in Brazilian tourism and both live in Mato Grosso do Sul, which is why the coverage of Bonito and the Pantanal goes deeper than the rest — it is the part we know from standing in it, not from reading about it.
Adriano Habermann
Founder of this project and CEO of Trip Hostel Turismo no Brasil. He has worked in search engine optimisation for more than fifteen years, which is the reason this site is built the way it is: static pages, one canonical per page, real structure instead of plugins.
He is the editor of the English version, which is the source every other language is written from. The Bonito and Pantanal coverage comes out of years of receiving travellers in that region and hearing the same planning mistakes repeated.
Adriana Oliveira
Co-CEO of Trip Hostel Turismo no Brasil. A business administrator and consultant working in business and property investment, she is responsible for the management side of the project and for its partnerships.
Her part of the work is the one readers never see and which decides whether a project like this survives: what it costs to run, what it is allowed to accept, and what it has to refuse.
How the pages are written
Every page answers the question in its title first and explains afterwards. That is a deliberate choice: a traveller comparing two destinations at eleven at night does not want three paragraphs of scene-setting before the answer.
We do not publish prices, opening hours, bus timetables or current conditions as facts. Those change between seasons and sometimes between weeks, and a page that states them confidently is wrong most of the time. Where a decision depends on them, the page says who to ask instead.
Structural facts over volatile ones: a ferry crossing exists or it does not; a ticket price changes every season.
The limits stated out loud. Several pages end with what they deliberately cannot settle for you.
No invented awards, no invented partners, no invented reader numbers.
Where artificial intelligence helped draft a text, the page says so rather than hiding it.
Where a translation has not been checked by a native speaker, the page says that too, instead of implying it has.
What this is not
This is not a government website and it has no official or endorsed status. The word Brasil in the name describes the subject, not an affiliation. No tourism board, ministry or municipality reviews what is published here, and none of them pays for it.
It is also not a booking platform. Where a page links to somewhere you can book, the booking happens on that company’s site under their terms, and the page says so at the link rather than in a footnote.
How it is funded
The portal earns through affiliate arrangements with booking platforms and through its connection to Trip Hostel, which is the same people’s business in Bonito. That relationship is stated on the pages where it is relevant rather than disguised as a recommendation.
What that money does not buy is a different answer. A destination does not get a better write-up for being bookable, and no page here recommends somewhere we would not send a friend to.
Frequently asked questions
Is Tourism Brasil an official tourism site?
No. It is an independent publication with no government or official status, and no tourism authority reviews or approves what appears here. The name describes the subject of the site, not an affiliation with any body.
Who writes Tourism Brasil?
Adriano Habermann, who founded the project and edits the English version, and Adriana Oliveira, who runs the management side. Both work in Brazilian tourism and live in Mato Grosso do Sul.
Why do the pages not list prices?
Because they change between seasons and a page that states them is wrong most of the time. Where prices appear on this site they come from a booking partner and carry their date, rather than being written into an article that will not be updated.
Are the other languages machine translations?
They are written from the English original rather than produced by a translation widget on the page. Where a version has not yet been checked by a native speaker of that language, the page states it — we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise.
