Brazil: change in number of tourism jobs 2020, by city
hotel occupancy of major Brazilian cities also experienced strong declines that year.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Brazilian city of São Paulo lost nearly 19 thousand tourism jobs in 2020 —the largest cut in this sector among cities in the country. Meanwhile, the city of Rio de Janeiro, one of the most popular touristic destinations in Brazil, recorded formal job losses of more than 17 thousand positions that year. The