Sao Paulo, Brazil - The Global Business Travel Association ("GBTA"), the world"s premier business travel and corporate meetings organization, announces the results of its inaugural GBTA BTI™ Outlook – Brazil, sponsored by VISA. The GBTA BTI™ Outlook – Brazil includes the GBTA Business Travel Index™ (GBTA BTI™).The GBTA BTI™ provides a way to distill market performance and the outlook for business travel into a single metric that can be tracked over time. Highlights Brazilian business travel spending will increase by 13% in 2012 and 15.7% in 2013, to US$31.1 billion and US$36 billion respectively Significant increases in real, actual travel Price rises impact [peripheral] Real GDP in Brazil will increase by 3.8% in 2012 and nearly 5% in 2013 Brazilian business travel spending shows a strong correlation with domestic job growth with BTS one quarter ahead of subsequent job creation By 2013, domestic business travel spending in Brazil will constitute 78% of the overall total