less tourism centered it means we're projecting an image of portugal which is very diverse which can be visited the whole year round the. growth outside of the traditional tourist hot spots is decisive for portugal's future the boom of recent years has often brought the algarve and the capital lisbon to the limits of what they can handle. 3 or 4 fabulous years behind us with 12 to 15 percent growth that's over now and that we have neither the infrastructure the know how nor the qualified staff to keep growing as strongly as that it wouldn't be good. but there's no letup in sight for the algarve yet latest figures show advance british bookings picking up again raising hopes the state's advertising campaign could be paying off and millions of new visitors are now surging in from brazil and the us alone little portugal is no longer the well kept secret it once was. and