Portugal’s hotel association AHP says that 80% of the country’s hotels are now closed because of the latest State of Emergency and lack of guests. In an interview with Jornal Económico, Raul [...]

The Coronavirus pandemic with its constraints, social distance and numbers restrictions and cancelled flights has left Portugal’s wedding sector in tatters with fears many companies may not [...]

The Algarve has everything to offer business relocators and digital nomads alike when it comes to lifestyle and value for money, but do get advice before making the move say local Irish and UK [...]

The President of the Algarve Tourism Association, João Fernandes, says he has “moderate expectations” for a return to some kind of normality by Easter. In an interview with the online business [...]

Telecoms giant Altice Portugal has made a complaint to the General Directorate of Health about what it calls the “lack of health safety conditions” defined by telecoms regulator Anacom for the [...]

The governor of the Bank of Portugal has forecast that the Portuguese economy will not go into recession in the first quarter of this year, despite the new lockdown. He said that the economy [...]

Portugal’s former finance minister, Vítor Gaspar, has warned that while everything should be done to save businesses from the pandemic crisis, governments should keep the receipts. Gaspar, who [...]

In a televised address to the nation yesterday evening, Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa decreed a further extension to the State of Emergency, saying that an effective lockdown would [...]

It is with great sadness that Essential Business has to announce the passing of Joaquim Pereira de Almeida this week. Joaquim Pereira de Almeida was an instantly recognisable face and a grand, [...]

Many of the consultants who are engaged in the study of the Angolan economy follow a methodology in which the predominant narrative is based on the negative numbers about macroeconomic aggregates [...]