Blogueiro de turismo de luxo Eric Engelen      Photo L'Hotel Porto Bay Sao PauloPor Alex Bernardes

Eric Jrm Engelen, one of the biggest luxury bloggers in the world, was recently in São Paulo and, in an exclusive interview with Brasilturis Jornal, told a bit about his work and his opinion about trends for the sector.

Engelen is Belgian, but considers himself a citizen of the world. Polyglot, fluent in six languages, lived in several European countries, but it was Greece that caught his heart and made him root for 32 years. 6 years ago he had the idea of ??creating his blog. Without any great pretensions, Passion4Luxury has become one of the worldwide references in the segment since it was launched  more than 13.000.000 visitors visited the blog being 3.000.000 only Brazilians.
BJ: How did the idea of ??the blog come about"

Eric Jrm Engelen: My blog is very simple, I launched by hobby in 2012 and since then it has been growing and becoming one of the biggest in the world. Today I can proudly say that I am among the 10 largest and most important luxury blogs in the world, even though I am in Blogspot. People ask me why I do not migrate to WordPress, but I think the secret of Passion4Luxury's success is precisely that, being simple, something that an ordinary person produces with the impressions he has, not a formal company trying to influence people. Today I have, on average, of 35,000-40.000 people visiting my blog during the weekdays. During th...