Tourism Commission pushes for casino legalisation in Brazil

The Tourism Commission in Brazil has asked deputy Rodrigo Maia to push and rush casino legalisation in the country.

Brazil.- The Tourism Commission in Brazil filed its priority projects for 2019. Among them, it promoted casinos legalisation to work together with tourism. On other end, the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, Rodrigo Maia, got the projects and will work on it.

According to local media, Tourism Commission president Newton Cardoso Jr. delivered the proposals to deputy Maia. During the meeting, he also asked for a “joint effort” to get them up to vote and passed by the Chamber. 

Alongside Mr. Cardoso was former Tourism minister Max Beltrão and Parliamentary Tourism Defense Front president, Herculano Pasos.

Furthermore, projects have been signed by the president of the Joint-Chamber Front for Gaming’s Approval. Said filing states that proposals could be debated next World Tourism Day, on September 27.

“As Tourism Day approaches, we think it’d be the ideal week to nail down this effort. That’s why we push for support to get proposed bills related with tourism in the Legislature’s Agenda. That includes casino legalisation,” they commented.

“We turned our proposals in to Maia. We’ve also requested for an effort to get the Deputy Chamber to vote as soon as possible,” Cardoso Jr. said.