Around 1.5 million people are expected to arrive in the country during the Olympics, with 9,000 passengers and 1,000 planes per day due to be traveling to the city during the Games. 

Ramalho believes that Rio de Janeiro’s two airports and others within 200 kilometres of the Olympic Village will be able to cope with the increased demands.

"At the infrastructure level, Rio de Janeiro is very well prepared and equipped to attend to air transport during the Olympic Games," he told Chinese news agency Xinhua.

To help cater for athletes and travellers with disabilities throughout the Games, airports will be equipped with special ramps.

According to a study for the Rio Convention and Visitors Bureau, flight bookings to the Olympic host city are currently three times higher than at the same time last year.

Currently the majority of bookings come from Argentina and the United States, the latter benefiting from its citizens not requiring visas to enter the country during Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The exemption, announced in January, is due to come into force from June 1 to September 18 and will see them granted 90-day visas.

Australia, Canada and Japan are also benefiting from the exemption.

The largest spike of arrivals in Rio de Janeiro in due to be on August 4, the day before the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Around 63 per cent of international visitors are expected to spend more than two weeks in the city, according to the study.

The study also claimed that the Zika virus has no significant impact on travel to the Olympics, despite Brazil being at the epicentre of the outbreak, which is prevalent in the Americas.

Symptoms - shown by about 20 per cent of people who contract the mosquito carried virus - include fevers, rashes, joint pain, eye redness and conjunctivitis.

Pregnant women are thought to be at particular risk of the virus due to a link with microcephaly - a birth defect which can cause babies to be born with small heads and under-developed brains.