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The VIP Group is to build a new four-star hotel with 300 rooms by Lisbon airport. The hotel group, founded in 1978, was not able to give a date for the opening of the new hotel, but according to [...]

Average property prices were up by 7.8% in the first quarter of 2018 and 20% in Lisbon and Porto for the same period. The data was revealed last week by the National Statistics Institute which [...]

Lisbon hotels saw a 13% increase in receipts in the first half of 2018 according to the Lisbon Tourism Observatory (OTL). RevPAR (Average Price per Available Room) per night increased 13% to [...]

Low-cost carrier Easy Jet wants to launch new routes to and from Lisbon but says it is unable to because Lisbon’s over-capacity airport simply doesn’t have the slots. From the start of this month [...]

Lisbon is the 93rd most expensive city to live in the world, climbing 44 places from 2017. This is according to a survey from Mercer which lists Hong Kong as the most expensive city to live in [...]

Lisbon has recently joined the travel circuit for art fairs, with ARCOlisboa offering a platform for premium international collectors. The launch of Madrid’s ARCO art fair in Lisbon three years [...]

The Portuguese Tourism Confederation has expressed doubts that the new Montijo Airport will be ready by 2022. Francisco Calheiros said that there are airline companies who want to operate more [...]

An agreement has been signed between Spain and Portugal for the use of two roads to test driverless cars. The cities of Viseu and Cascais are likely to be included for the pilot scheme.   [...]

Gulbenkian holds an exhibition displaying works produced almost exclusively between 1965 and 1975.

Lisbon’s popularity as a world tourist destination and increased capacity at Lisbon’s new cruise ship terminal have contributed to record number of passengers visiting the Portuguese capital. [...]