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Cascais Mayor Carlos Carreiras reflects on an international marketing strategy that has placed the resorts on a qualitative par with Cannes, San Tropez and Positano thanks to a year-round [...]

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 [...]

This year the largest wine producer on the Island of Pico in the Azores, PicoWines, celebrated its 75th anniversary. Essential Business was invited to join in the celebrations and discovered how [...]

Portuguese who want to visit the United Kingdom will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation, a document that will become mandatory for Europeans from April 2025, the British Government announced [...]

Tourist numbers from the United States continue to rise this year according to Portugal’s National Statistics Institute (INE) with the number of visitors registered at Portuguese hotels and [...]

In a bid to boost tourism and desertification, Portugal’s Alentejo region is to set up hubs in a bid to attract digital nomads to the area. The hope is to breathe new life into the region’s small [...]

The most watched program by Americans, ABC’s Good Morning America, was broadcast on Thursday from Portugal. The exposure could help attract more tourists from the US who, among foreign [...]

Holidaying in Porto and fancy being immersed in 1920s and 1930s Deco glamour? Then the city’s Le Monumental Palace hotel provides the perfect experience together with a culinary journey across [...]

Most hotels in Portugal have summer bookings above 50% with hopes for a bumper summer according to a survey from the Portugal Hotel Association (AHP). “Expectations for peak season from our [...]