Ocean Restaurant (2**), located at VILA VITA Parc Resort & Spa in the Algarve and led by Chef Hans Neuner since 2007 - has just been listed among the 25 best restaurants in the world according to La Liste 2020.

VILA VITA Spa by Sisley Paris was honoured, last week, at the World Spa Awards Gala Ceremony with the Portugal’s Best Resort Spa 2019 Award. The event that is already on its fifth edition happened at Armani Hotel Dubai, in Dubai and announced the winning awards resulting of a record number of votes casted, throughout the year, by leading spa and wellness tourism professionals, as well as hundreds of thousands of spa consumers from across the globe.

Condé Nast Traveler has announced the results of its annual Readers’ Choice Awards with VILA VITA PARC recognized as the #3 Destination Spa Resort in the world.

More than 600,000 Condé Nast Traveler readers across the globe submitted a recording-breaking number of responses rating their travel experiences to provide a full snapshot of where and how we travel today.

A Escola do Gelado, the first ice cream school in Portugal and the only one specialised in natural ice cream, have opened their own space in Albufeira, and the first training courses start this month!

Courses are available for those in the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe industry, or just those with a passion for ice cream.

VILA VITA Parc’s boutique shopping plaza ‘VLIFE Shops’ brings guests an eclectic blend of exclusive international and local brands, showcasing the very best in fashion, lifestyle, eyewear, jewellery, watches, wine and gourmet products.

The Algarve could be transformed into a ‘Mecca’ for health and wellness travel - benefiting from major investment linked to the booming €600billion global industry - according to organisers of the 2019 Algarve Tourism Conference.

Tourist development consultant Andrew Coutts said worldwide ‘wellness tourism’ spend is rising rapidly and expected to surpass €900 billion by 2022, representing 18pc of the global tourism market. Meanwhile the GWI (Global Wellness Institute) predicts wellness tourism trips to grow by 8pc annually reaching 1.2billion by 2022. 

Last Saturday June 8, VILA VITA Parc Resort & Spa, located in Porches, Algarve, was awarded Europe’s Leading Luxury Hotel & Villas 2019 by the World Travel Awards for the second consecutive time. Every year, since 1993, the World Travel Awards have been distinguishing and celebrating excellence in the many areas of the travel and tourism industry.