One of the Lula government representatives, the Minister of Tourism, Celso Sabino, says that abusive cases are exceptions and that there are excessive complaints from international delegations.
“There are the general rule is that we will have rooms of various price ranges, from $ 300 to $ 10,000 or $ 12,000 at night in six star hotels, to serve all types of audiences,” he says.
Last week, Sabino was moved to Belém at the request of President Lula, after a group of African countries complained about the high hosting costs and mentioned the possibility of the event change – a certain that Paraense Sabino discards.
“We are working so that there are no argument to try to divide or empty COP. Doing in Bethlehem is our plan A and doing in Bethlehem is our plan B,” he said.
This week, Alexander Van der Bellen, of not coming to the event for budgetary reasons. Sabino minimizes the question. “The president does not come, but there will be a delegation of ministers of Austria who will come,” he said.
In practical terms, he says that in the coming weeks they will be released for reserves thousands of rooms in new hotels that will be ready, plus two anchored cruise ships.
“We have been boosting for almost two years the construction of new hotels and the expansion of beds. We released through Fangetur [Fundo Geral do Turismo] R $ 382 million for these purposes, an appeal that entrepreneurs return to an interest of 8% per year, with lack and expanded payment deadline, “he said.
According to him, the platform that will make the beds available and has been ready recently will bring more accessibility to the reservations. “There is an agreement with the hotel chain, to have 10% to 20% of the rooms available with daily up to $ 300,” he said. “Of course the demand is high, it’s like the Lady Gaga show on Copacabana beach,” he added.
The minister also states that the decision of some delegations of not going to Belém is something that has already occurred in other COPs, and cannot be attributed to the availability and price of rooms. “Many delegations did not want to go to the Cops of Dubai, Baku, Sharm El Sheikh, for example.”
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