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Another blow for Algarve tourism By TPN/Lusa, in Algarve, Tourism · 25-06-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Algarve tourism businesses are being hit hard with new Lisbon weekend restrictions curbing staycations in the region.
Newly imposed travel restrictions for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area are having an adverse effect on Algarve tourism businesses with the president of the Algarve hoteliers association (AHETA) seeing the new rules as being another nail in the Algarve tourism coffin.
Speaking to Lusa agency, Elidérico Viegas, the president of the Algarve Hotels and Touristic Enterprises Association (AHETA) considers that the restriction of circulation in and out of Lisbon during the weekend, “is another blow for the Algarve, a region that had high hopes that the national market will help to minimise losses being ex
Airports receive 739,000 passengers in April By TPN/Lusa, in Business · 25-06-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
National airports received 739,000 passengers in April, 86 percent less than the same month in 2019, but higher than in April 2020.
Air transport stats for April, released by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), record the movement of 739,400 passengers (boarding, disembarking and direct transit) and 14,000 tonnes of cargo and mail, decreasing 86 percent and 18.2 percent, respectively, compared to the same month in 2019, before the pandemic.
France was the main country of origin and destination of flights, followed by Switzerland and Germany, according to the data.
Also in April, 6,500 commercial aircraft landed at national airports, a decrease of 66.9 percent compared to April 2019.
The Portugal News has launched a campaign to lobby the UK government to try to change their mind regarding moving Portugal off the green list of travel.