{"id":93237,"date":"2017-03-09T02:55:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T07:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93237"},"modified":"2017-03-09T02:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T07:55:22","slug":"6m-people-partied-in-rio-carnival-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/09\/6m-people-partied-in-rio-carnival-season\/","title":{"rendered":"6M people partied in Rio Carnival season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93238\" style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rio.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93238\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rio.png\" alt=\"Almost six million people participated in various activities in the Carnival season in Rio de Janeiro, the city's tourism company Riotur said on Wednesday. (Photo: Leandro Neumann Ciuffo\/Flickr)\" width=\"533\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rio.png 533w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rio-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almost six million people participated in various activities in the Carnival season in Rio de Janeiro, the city&#8217;s tourism company Riotur said on Wednesday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/leandrociuffo\/6786843196\/in\/photolist-bkJm2S-RAyS9E-qq9whK-qq1XQA-rjJVAw-r5qcqJ-qq3NzN-rmTYgY-rmWrES-qq5kCX-rjL5Ns-rmVhiX-4qdzkU-qq4S8X-dVtqXv-dVCJUR-6vU1mu-dVAJZQ-6Cnv8-dVt9hx-6vthAj-r5otij-r3CaSZ-qq4t7X-r5AwNv-r5yx2F-rmWUCE-rmSKiA-3wLKm-r5tN2k-rmGb1H-rmZn9e-r5nKQY-dVvHPk-4rFfyL-dVxBjX-rmUWmJ-dVvBua-dVDRv3-dVBsJW-6CnvL-6WKmwm-qq5u5B-dVBs6f-dVvzma-r5yPdD-r5rThU-qqbTzv-7SKUq6-8VjExP\">Leandro Neumann Ciuffo\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO\u2014Almost six million people participated in various activities in the Carnival season in Rio de Janeiro, the city&#8217;s tourism company Riotur said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Riotur said 5,982,700 people, among locals and tourists, attended the hundreds of Carnival blocks and parades in the Carnival season in the country, which starts a bit earlier than the actual Carnival holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Rio received 1.1 million foreign tourists during Carnival week, who spent some three billion reals (964 million U.S. dollars) in the city, Riotur said.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the New Year holidays, Carnival is the most crowded and lucrative season for the local tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>Average hotel occupation was 78 percent during the Carnival holiday. Fourteen cruise ships, which was filled with some 50,000 tourists, docked in the city in Carnival.<\/p>\n<p>A poll carried out among foreign tourists who attended the samba schools parade, in Rio&#8217;s Sambadrome, showed that 94 percent of foreigners said they were satisfied with the city and would return in another occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Out of those, 91.9 percent would recommend a visit to Rio to their friends, and 17.4 percent intend to return to Rio in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO\u2014Almost six million people participated in various activities in the Carnival season in Rio de Janeiro, the city&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,17],"tags":[16389,16388],"class_list":["post-93237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-news-w","tag-carnival-season","tag-rio-de-janeiro","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}