Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel, Rio de Janeiro will celebrate its 100 years with the launch of an annual arts, gastronomy, and cultural programme, running throughout 2023.

Just in time for the holidays and the upcoming carnival season, Delta Air Lines resumed its popular seasonal route between its Atlanta hub and Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão International Airport (GIG) this week.

Rio de Janeiro’s hotel industry saw a substantially larger impact as host of the 2016 Olympics than London in 2012 and Beijing in 2008, according to data from STR. During the month of August, Rio de Janeiro hotels posted a 199.2 per cent surge in average daily rate to BRL1,250.

The first train for Rio’s new Light Rail system has just arrived in Rio for testing, as part of Brazil’s investment in public infrastructure ahead of the 2016 Olympics. With over 480,000 tourists predicted to descend on Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic & Paralympic Games next summer, the Light Rail will carry approximately 285,000 tourists every day, easing the pressure on the city’s other transport systems.

London 2012 chairman Seb Coe has thanked the hundreds of thousands of people who helped to make the 16 days of the Olympic Games a success during a stunning ceremonial finale. Speaking during the Closing Ceremony of the event in the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, he said: “The British people got behind London’s bid and they got behind London’s Games.”

Rio de Janeiro is promoting itself in restaurants and bars across the UK as the next host city of the Summer Olympics and the World Cup. The Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau and Las Iguanas, already established as the leading collection of Latin American restaurants in the UK, has brought the taste and spirit of Rio de Janeiro to Britain to brighten up the London Olympics and the summer of 2102.