Tourism

The United Kingdom is remaining inflexibly stubborn over its strict policy of making British holidaymakers returning from Portugal go into self-isolation for 14 days. Says the Portugal Resident [...]

Worsening relations between China and the western world and the perception that Covid-19 is a Chinese flu among the general public is having a catastrophic effect on Portugal’s local 30,000 [...]

Room occupancy in the Algarve’s hotels fell 60% in July like-for-like on 2019 according to the Algarve hotel association AHETA. The average total occupancy per room was just 33,2 percent [...]

Around 43% of restaurants and bars and 17% of local accommodation guest houses are considering filing for bankruptcy. These were the latest sobering figures from the monthly survey carried out by [...]

Portugal is said to be holding talks with the British Government again in a bid to get quarantine measures scrapped for holidaymakers returning from Portugal to the UK. At present everyone [...]

The new Neya Porto Hotel opened its doors today (Monday 3 August) after an investment of €18 million including €6 million investment from the EU’s Portugal 2020 fund. The project transformed part [...]

Tourism represents nearly 20% of Portugal’s GDP. It grew its revenues by 60% in four years from €11Bn per year to €18.4 between 2016-2019.  But now the industry is at a standstill with hopes of a [...]

Formula 1 racing is to return to Portugal after an absence of 24 years. By Michael Bruxo – Algarve Resident  The announcement was made last week by Portimão Mayor Isilda Gomes who said that [...]

Work has begun on the new Meliã Lisboa hotel, the first 5-star unit from the Spanish hotel chain in Portugal. The hotel will be located on the intersection between Avenida António Aguiar and [...]

Cruise boat companies are once again operating trips up and down Portugal’s Douro Valley – a World Heritage site — after having lost millions from being moored up because of the Covid-19 [...]