Travel

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 [...]

Portugal’s tax and public finances watchdog IGF has suggested in a report that Alexandra Reis, the ex-TAP director at the centre of the Golden Handshake Affair could be reintegrated into 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 [...]

Madeira and Porto Santo airports saw 3,062 million passengers between January and September 2022. This is according to the Directorate Regional of Statistics (DREM), which said the numbers [...]

Tourism, together with associated real estate, is undoubtedly one of the main drivers of Portugal’s economy, currently representing 15% of its GDP. But the success that Portugal has enjoyed over [...]

After winning 30 awards at the World Tavel Awards (Europe) in October, Portugal has now won 12 awards at the World Travel Awards at a ceremony that took place in Oman. Porto, Lisbon and Madeira [...]

Text: Chris Graeme Photos: Joaquim Morgado Tourism provides around 15% of Portugal’s GDP and the United States is one of the Top 5 inbound markets to Portugal along with the French, Germans, [...]

In the post-pandemic, cost-of-living, sustainable-minded world there seems to be two trends doing the rounds in leading trend-setting cities like New York or London. One is hard seltzers, [...]

Portuguese airline TAP has expressed regret that it has been unable to reach an agreement with its pilots. The problem is that the TAP board, its unions claim, has refused to call employee [...]

Portugal’s tourism sector closed 2021 with 16 million hotel and accommodation bookings from tourists who brought in €2.3Bn in revenues in 2021, but was it still below 2019 levels. The country’s [...]