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 Survey Reveals Brazil As Top Choice for South America Holidays   Travel & Tourism Colourful Brazil, famed for is Copacabana and Ipanema beaches and many other stunning tourist attractions, has emerged as the top choice of travellers if they were planning a holiday in South America, a new survey shows. The enormous country that takes up around half the continent's space received massive global publicity in 2016 when the Olympic Games were staged in the popular coastal city of Rio de Janeiro — known for its landmark and towering Christ the Redeemer statue. Since then the vast land of over 207 million people has been enjoying record numbers of tourist arrivals, and last year saw more than 6.5 million people landing in the country — a new record. Officials at the Tourism Ministry pointed to generally lower prices in Brazil compared to other South American destinations, including Argentina, and the availability of a new e-visa system that slashes processing time from months to days