Tourism

Over 3.2 million passengers are estimated to have trips booked to Porto over the next 12 months. On Thursday, July 9, Porto Business School unveiled the initial indicators from the Tourism [...]

Portugal ranks among the European countries where residents most acutely feel the impact of tourism on housing costs. An estimated annual rent increase of €220 since 2019 places the country among [...]

The President of the Hotel Association of Portugal has warned that municipal councils, particularly Lisbon City Council, cannot keep endlessly granting planing permission for hotels. Bernardo [...]

The CEO of Portuguese airline TAP says the European Entry/Exit System poses one of the greatest challenges to the company’s operation at Portugal’s airports and could lead to failures to keep [...]

The Braga-based Hotel Janes company held by ABB (Alexandre Barbosa Borges) has just reached an agreement with the British Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) that includes the transfer of the [...]

Tourism continues to be one of the driving forces of the Portuguese economy, and it was the first time that more than €2Bn billion were raked in for March. The British continue to be the biggest [...]

It’s a disaster! After Ryanair’s decision to suspend flights to and from the Azores there has already been a 25,000 drop in passenger numbers. The Irish low-cost airline decided to abandon [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Finances, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento is to ask parliament to present ideas for jacking up VAT in the hospitality sector. Joaquim Miranda Sarmento had voiced his opposition to [...]

The property development company Libertas has invested €25 million in Seixal on the South bank of Lisbon’s River Tagus by converting a former cork processing factory into a hotel. The former [...]

Portugal’s cruise ship sector grew over 7% in 2025, the year in which 80,000 Portuguese decided to embark on a cruise holiday. According to the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the [...]