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Campinas, the Brazilian Silicon Valley
Business Travel, Hotels
And Flights
Campinas is a city and county in Sao Paulo state, Brazil. The city has a
population over a million people (2,4 million, in the case of its metropolitan
area, and more than 4 milllion for the county as a whole). Campinas is around
100 Kms distant of Sao Paulo (62 miles).
Campinas, sometimes known as the City of Swallows (though they have mostly
disappeared from its downton) is on the top of brazilian economics, where it
represents around 9% of Brazil's GDP (for around 3% of the brazilian population).
Sectors as coffee, sugar-cane, cotton (in the agriculture), or textiles, cars,
food, chemical, oil, pharmaceuticals, cellulose, electronics, telecommunications
(in industry), are particularly well represented in Campinas. But also are
commerce and services...
Campinas is sometimes nicknamed as the Brazilian Silicon Vallley, reflecting the
presence of a great number of research centers, brazilian universities and
high-tech industries (fiber optics, lasers, satellite, software, genetic
engineering, ethanol motor vehicles tecnology...) as well as the presence of
many top multinational high-tech corporations (IBM, Motorola, Compac, Sansung,
Alcatel, Bosh, Texas Instruments...) and
high-tech incubators and industrial parks (Softex,
TechnoPark, TechTown, Polis, Industrial Park of Campinas...).
Business visitors and business travel
The
Convention and Visitors Bureau of Campinas is a key element for supporting
business visitors, as well as the Campinas Videoconference Center, at Edumed
Institute, and a branch of the American Chamber of Commerce.
HOTELS TO YOUR TRAVEL
CAMPINAS, SAO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL
Accor, Melia, and other top hotel chains are present in Campinas,
but the top references for businessmen are the Naumi
Hotel and the Mercure Hotel or the Royal Palm
Plaza (with its large international-class convention
center). In the cheap category
Vitoria Hotel
Campinas
is a good choice.
The airport
Campinas has its own international airport - the Airport of
Viracopos - important as an air cargo terminal and as a
passenger gateway in rapid expansion. This airport
is 14
Kms / 9 miles away of the Campinas' downtown, and around 100 Kms
/ 62 miles from Sao Paulo.
Notwithstanding Guarulhos Intl (the Sao
Paulo airport), is yet a reference for most international
visitors and flights.
Transfers from the airport
There is a wide service of taxis and buses every few minutes to several destinations
in both airports: the Airport of Viracopos, in Campinas, and the
airport of Guarulhos.
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