Tourism

The Government’s decision to slash VAT on essential food items to ease the cost of living crisis will not be enough to reduce the price of meals served in the restaurant and hotel sectors. The [...]

Seven years ago the travel sections of US newspapers hailed Portugal’s Alentejo district of Comporta as the new Hamptons. Now the UK’s Telegraph has dubbed Estoril and Cascais as the “new [...]

The Portuguese hotel group Vila Galé is to open four new hotel units in Portugal in 2023; one of them aimed at families with children. Two hotels are near Beja in the Alentejo, one in the Azores, [...]

Since the Government announced its Housing Package on March 16, with restrictive rules on guest houses for tourists in Lisbon and Porto and other cities, applications for licences have quadrupled [...]

The turnstiles opened at Lisbon’s annual travel fair BTL – Bolsa de Turismo de Lisboa today (Wednesday, 1 March). The organisation is optimistic and believes that the largest fair in the [...]

It’s good news for holidaymakers jetting to and out of Faro’s Gago Coutinho Airport as 18 new routes and six new destinations have been announced for this summer season. The new destinations are [...]

Portugal is estimated to have around 35,000 sites of historical and cultural significance, most of them being left to idly fall into rack and ruin through lack of interest, investment, or [...]

Portugal achieved another record in tourism revenues in 2022 from hotel bookings. Last year, partly on back of pent-up demand hanging over from the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, was the best [...]

Since it was purchased in 2013 by French entrepreneur Philippe Austruy, Quinta da Côrte has focused on exclusive premium wines produced at vineyards around a luxury boutique guesthouse, where [...]

Revenues from the tourist tax brought in €54 million to the coffers of 11 municipal councils in 2022. The tax levied on hotel and guest house accommodation bills rose 209% on 2021, but was still [...]