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Problem Of the Day: Rio's Hotel Shortage

As the city prepares to host a number of global events, it still lacks the hotel space to meet the demand.
Reuters

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro next month is expected to be the largest UN event ever held. That's good news for getting people – roughly 50,000 of them – involved in the program, dubbed Rio+20, which is aimed at developing a global strategy for green development in the face of climate change. The massive participation may be bad news though for many of the attendees who won't have place to sleep.

The Associated Press estimates that there are about 33,000 hotel beds in Rio, which is far short of what's needed to accommodate the roughly 50,000 visitors expected to attend the event.