Tourism

Portugal’s Algarve region has claimed the accolade of ‘World’s Leading Beach Destination for 2024’ at the World Travel Awards reports Portugal Pathways. This confirms its position as a global [...]

The IPDT – Institute for Tourism Planning and Development will host the 2025 IPDT Tourism Conference, under the theme ‘Tourism in Portugal: Strategies to Lead in 2025’. The event, [...]

Twenty twenty-four was as bumper year for Portugal’s tourism industry with a record 30 million tourists. According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), Portugal registered 2,981.2 thousand [...]

According to the latest data from the Bank of Portugal released on Wednesday, tourism brought in €1.6Bn for the Portuguese economy in the first 10 months of 2024. And according to data on the [...]

Vila Nova da Gaia’s immersive, multimedia World of Wine port wine visitor attraction in Porto was the backdrop of this year’s 3rd Irish-Portuguese Business Network Tourism Conference attended by [...]

Lisbon has been recognised as the ‘Best World Heritage City’ for the first time and the ‘Best City Break Destination’ for the second time at the 31st World Travel Awards 2024. Known as the [...]

The renown high-end shoe designer Christian Louboutin, famous for his red-soled creations that sell for hundreds of euros a pair, wants to prevent Melides, on the Alentejo coast – where he [...]

Portugal’s Finances minister, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento says that Portugal must concentrate more on innovation and technology and less on tourism which now represents around 20% of the country’s [...]

Portugal is expected to close the year 2024 with €27Bn in tourist revenues and the prospect of 9% growth in 2025, the Secretary of State for Tourism said on Monday. “As of today we know it [...]

How can Portugal keep its tourism industry relevant to the latest trends and, at the same time, address the unique challenges that the sector faces? One body that aims to find the answers to [...]