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There are some luxury yacht builders in Brazil. Find out where they are.

Originally posted by sven There are some luxury yacht builders in Brazil. Find out where they are.

There's one off Raposo Tavares in SP, just after the Pedagio around KM45 I think. I will look for the name.

Originally posted by Jully There is one near Florianópolis, in Palhoça. Their website: http://www.schaeferyachts.com.br/

Also, 'up the road' in Balneário Camboriú, there are some yacht dealers.

@Scott:  I've mentioned this previously... there are some beach towns south of Florianópolis (Garopaba/Imbituba/Laguna), which I believe are ripe for further development.  Garo perhaps less so, because it's been 'discovered' already, yet still, more opportunities exist in this stretch south, than in Floripa proper, and northwards to Curitiba, be it a pousada, or another tourist-related enterprise.  The stretch of BR101 south of Floripa, which passes through these towns, is almost completed with major renovation of the highway.  I predict this will assist further development in those areas.

As for hotels, Accor (which someone else already mentioned), seems to be the mainstay of choices in Floripa; Soffitel, Mercure, Ibis, F1, are their brands.  Yet there is also a company out of Curitiba called Slaviero.  They are rapidly expanding throughout Brasil.  They just constructed a new property in Palhoça (where the yacht company Jully mentioned is located).  Like Accor, they have a range of brands, high end, to budget.  Every time I've visited Curitiba, I've stayed at a Slaviero hotel, and have yet to be disappointed.




Edited by Gringo.Floripa - 19 April 2012 at 12:01

Originally posted by kevbo I agree with GF regarding the area south of Floripa the problem however is the low season down here is so long.  How many bookings would your pousada have in Apr-October.

For 'low season' (in the south of Brasil), I think one needs to focus on visitors from Canada, US, UK, and Europe.  Granted, people want to escape their winters, and enjoy warm weather in Brasil Dec-Feb, but the majority of people up north still have the bulk of their vacation time banked in Jun-Aug.  In fact, I have visitors come to Floripa in those months, which has moderate to cool temps (but not necessarily cold) precisely because they want to escape the sweltering heat of where they live in the northern hemisphere.

Also, just a few hours inland from the Sta. Catarina coast is the amazing and beautiful serra region.  Tourism is still in it's infancy there, and what presently exists is poorly done.  An enterprising gringo with an idea of what the foreign visitor expects, as for accommodations, and to a lesser extent, amenities, will have the local pousada proprietors eating their dust, and green with envy!

Also, while not common, but it does occur, the serra can have light snowfall Jun-Aug.  To leave a miserable 95F temp, with suffocating  humidity of a US summer, for a scene like this, indeed has an allure for certain travelers... usually savvy ones.