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Economic reviews must not pass beats by corporate tourism segment. After the new revision of the gross domestic product, released by the Central Bank, and the fall of consumer confidence and business, the industry expects growth between 5% and 6%, instead of the two digits referred to at the beginning of the year. The projections are of the Brazilian Association of corporate travel (Abracorp). According to the President of the Board of Directors of the Organization, Carlos Prado, the beginning of the year was on schedule, however, the delay of the resumption and the fall in consumer confidence and the business community must impact the performance of the next few months. " We are optimistic, only for those who expected 12%, 13% or more to recover the fall of 2014 to 2016, maybe not. Unfortunately, it's going to be until after the new President a greater heating of corporate tourism. " In June, he says that it is possible to observe the weakening of vista-restart at the beginning of the year. "What we realized is that we expected a number and we saw each other. At least in my agency [Tour House] we are 8% below [the goal of the month]. " In the case of the month of June, another factor that ended up damaging was the World Cup, according to newly disclosed data Mundo.De entity, in the first quarter revenue growth was 17.48%, in comparison with the same period of the previous year. The performance is above the observed in recent years. In 2014 and 2016, accumulated the Associates had 28% drop. As early as 2017, the segment was 12%. In addition to macroeconomic factors, other pressures that have affected the niche is the appreciation of the dollar, the real. "The projects already signed travel, events and incentive tourism abroad will be carried out. Already the new projects are being put aside or being transferred to Brazil, "said Prado. According to him, the sale of airline ticket had an impact, but still small compared to the incentive trips or conventions of overseas sales. In the perception of the Vice President of the Board of Directors of Abracorp, Luis Vabo, even who's going to point meetings turned out to postpone the trip. "There are many meetings throughout the year and many thought ' Let's make a conference call, let's do a little later or instead of sending three executives we send two or one," adds Vabo.Na explanation of the Executive Director of Abracorp, like the Oak Jahy travel budgets – set annually by customers – are calculated in dollars, as the dollar has a high variation, companies start to get attention. "If there is a project for any journey that could be reduced or can wait a few days, it influences," said Carvalho. According to the data of the first quarter, all segments were discharged, with the exception of the items "other international services" (21.39%)-, (international travel insurance-14.91%) and international travel packages (-1.07%). Institutional changes yesterday (28) the entity debuted new tool your business intelligence (BI), the intelligence Abracorp, which gathers information targeted to its 28 members. In addition, the Association has launched a guide of good practice for clients, associates and suppliers. "It's a new moment for the entity, we started the movement for more than two years and now we're making some deliveries," said Carlos Prado. The trend is that in a second phase, the BI tool to get more dynamic.