What both governors and civil society would agree is that Rio was not exactly prepared to hold such a large international event. To begin with, prices were exorbitant and many delegations threatened not to come because of this. Of course there were no hotels and due to the heavy air traffic (private and commercial) many flights had to be cancelled and even us here at Matuet\u00e9 were affected by this chaos.\u00a0There was also lots of traffic, internet issues\u2026 It all shows that we weren’t totally\u00a0 ready for it.<\/p>\n
Now everyone is back home and apparently everything will remain the same. The \u201cFuture we want\u201d will end up being a document full of good intentions and small actions, and as for our concerns around here about our capacity to host major events, let\u00b4s hope that Rio and all Brazilian cities can learn with the chaos that was the Rio +20 conference.<\/p>\n
The Fifa World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016 are coming fast. For us the RIO +20 taught us invaluable lessons as to how we can help our travelers have amazing experiences in these major events.<\/p>\n
<\/a> So Rio +20 is over and most of the media says it was a failure. And if we look closely at\u00a0the document named \u201cThe future we want\u201d that came out of it, we can understand why they say so.\u00a0 But it was not a complete waste of time and money \u2013 the civil society movements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-en","category-culture-history-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/matuete.com\/wpmatuete\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GreenChristoRedentor-239x400.jpg\" "\\"GreenChristoRedentor\\"")
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