Hospitality

The Pestana Group is to extend the CR7 brand to luxury apartments, with a project in Funchal, Madeira. The move comes six years after the largest hotel group in Portugal run by Dionísio Pestana [...]

The Portuguese association which represents hotels, guest houses and restaurants fears there will be a rash of cancellations because of the chaos at Portugal’s Lisbon and other European airports. [...]

The Vila Galé hotel group is to invest €12 million in the Azores, turning the former hospital in São Miguel into a hotel under its brand ‘Collection’. Portugal’s second largest hotel group, [...]

The Portuguese Association of Hotels and Restaurants (AHRESP) and the National Statistics Institute reveal that the accommodation and restaurant segments have lost around 25% of their staff since [...]

The building housing the Westmont Institute of Tourism and Hospitality (WiTH) was officially opened on Tuesday by the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prince Amyn Aga Khan. The [...]

Hotel bookings for tourists were down 22.1% in August on 2019 according to the latest figures from the national statistics institute (INE). The sector registered 2.5 million guests and 7.5 [...]

The Government has announced that nightclubs can reopen from 1 October but nevertheless up to 70% are expected to have filed for bankruptcy by the spring. With all of them being closed for 18 [...]

Algarve hoteliers and restauranteurs are bracing themselves for an influx of British tourists following the UK’s decision to lift all restrictions on resident holidaymakers on their return to the [...]

The latest anti-Covid-19 restrictions on opening hours announced by the government are having a huge and damaging impact on companies running restaurants and guest houses. This is according to [...]