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 [...]
Portugal’s hotels and guest houses registered 3.6 million overnight stays in November 2021, which was an increase of 287.7% on the previous month. October has also enjoyed a 137.7% increase in [...]
Sixty-five new hotels opened in Portugal in 2021, providing an additional 4,500 rooms for the business and tourism trips market. According to numbers released by the consultants Cushman & [...]
The Arab sheik Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber who is the owner of JJW Hotels & Resorts which has hotels and golf courses in the Algarve, has invested €42 million in the holiday region. His group [...]
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 Ventozelo Hotel & Quinta has been voted one of the best gastro-hotels in the world in the National Geographic Traveller Hotel Award 2021 – the only one in Portugal. The decision by [...]
Holiday room bookings in the Algarve stood at an average of 76.2%, 17.9% below 2019 bookings but 26.9% higher than the take-up rate registered in August 2020. According to AHETA (Algarve Hotels [...]
Despite improvements, Portugal’s tourism sector is still far beyond expectations now that flight restrictions have eased. According to the national statistics institute (INE), both the number of [...]
