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Residents’ trips fall 41.1% in 2020 By TPN/Lusa, in Business, Tourism · 30-04-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Travel by residents fell 41.1 percent over the whole of last year, compared to 2019, reaching a total of 14.4 million, the lowest value of the last decade.
According to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), domestic travel decreased by 35.7 percent and travel abroad decreased by 78.1 percent (after increases of 9 percent and 24.7 percent, respectively, in 2019).
Considering only the fourth quarter of 2020, according to the INE, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of more restrictive measures on circulation, especially in the months of November and December, continued to be felt in the number of trips made, with residents in Portugal making 2.3 million trips, which