Angra dos Reis airport expansion: developing ‘the Brazilian Cancun’

There are resort areas around the world which would like make the leap to being international standard ones but they lack the airport facilities to do that.

One of them is Angra dos Reis in Brazil, with its beaches, islands and historical monuments, and a state park. It lies between Brazil's two largest cities but accessibility is not easy; it is not even on a passenger rail line, and road travel is difficult.

Now the government has thrown its weight behind a scheme to extend the small general aviation airport there with the ambitious hope that it can one day attract sufficient commercial traffic to allow Angra dos Reis to compete with Mexico's Cancún in the tourism stakes.

However, there are many impediments along the way to attaining that goal.