Leaders from MSC, Costa, NCL and Royal Caribbean will be part of the panel of the 5th CLIA Brasil Forum 2023

The 5th CLIA Brasil 2023 Forum, which will take place on August 30, at the headquarters of the National Confederation of Municipalities, in Brasília, confirms the presence of leaders of major shipping companies in its programming.

The trends and perspectives of the Cruise Industry in Brazil and in the world will be the subject of the first panel of the event, which will feature Adrian Ursilli (General Director of MSC Cruises in Brazil), André Pousada (Regional Vice-President, Government Relations – Latin America of Royal Caribbean), Dario Rustico (Executive President for South and Central America at Costa Cruises) and Estela Farina (General Manager of Norwegian Cruise Lines in Brazil), mediated by Grupo Bandeirantes journalist André Coutinho.

The event will also feature the launch of the official figures for the 2022/2023 Season, in the Study carried out by CLIA Brasil in partnership with the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), in addition to other panels and debates on sustainability, regulation, ports and infrastructure, Passenger Terminals and news among the destinations that receive the ships, always with the focus on bringing together authorities and major players in the Cruise market for a day of reflection on trends and challenges for the development of this important tourist activity in the country.

“We are working for the 5th edition of the CLIA Brasil Forum to consolidate itself more and more as a vanguard event, which anticipates trends, in addition to debating the existing bottlenecks for our sector to continue growing and positively impacting the economy of the country and the whole community involved in our activity. For this, we are going to bring together a plurality of personalities from our segment, with strategic and differentiated visions that will only add to the debate”, says Marco Ferraz, president of CLIA Brasil.