The Brazilian government wants to regulate trade relations during next year’s World Cup in the wake of concerns about over-inflated hotel and airline prices.
Brazil president, Dilma Rousseff, has created an inter-ministerial committee that will monitor prices, tariffs and the quality of products and services during the 2014 World Cup. The move comes after a study by the tourism board in Brazil showed that some hotel rates would rise by up to 500% during the event.
One of Brazil’s leading newspapers, Folha de S. Paulo, also reported that a return flight from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo during the event could cost 10 times the normal amount.
The president’s chief of staff, Gleisi Hoffmann, said in a statement by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice: “We don’t set prices and we won’t set prices but we won’t allow abuses.”
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