Rio de Janeiro

Country:	Brazil
Time Difference:	-3 hour(s)
Flight time from UK:	13 hrs 25 mins
Currency:	Cruzeiro Real
Health advice:	Hepatitis A and Typhoid: immunisation or tablets recommended. Malaria: immunisation or tablets recommended depending on the area visited. Yellow Fever: immunisation or tablets recommended depending on the area visited, but essential if arriving from an infected country or area (not applicable if travelling direct from the UK).

Rio de Janiero is South America’s most sought after convention destination with state-of-the-art meeting facilities and offering a total of more than 23,000 hotel rooms. The city has a sophisticated tourism infrastructure with over 20 major international airlines flying in daily to major world capitals. The airport is 13 miles north of the city centre. The hotels are mainly concentrated in the South Zone of the city and many have convention centres. The Riocentro is the largest convention centre in South America with over 100,000m² of exhibition space. The city has the famous Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, lush tropical forests, Sugar Loaf mountain, warm year-round weather and is known for the Carnival.