Portugal’s Secretary of State for Tourism said in Lisbon today that Portugal and Spain constitute the largest tourist and gastronomic destination in the world, and emphasised that the two countries "increasingly work together" to promote themselves.
"If we add Portugal to Spain, we become the world's biggest touristic and gastronomic destination and this is the example we have here today," said Ana Mendes Godinho, at the opening of the gala to present the Michelin Guide to Spain and Portugal 2019, taking place in Lisbon for the first time.
Ana Mendes Godinho thanked Michelin, "for recognising the increasing importance of these two countries as a destination, the Iberian Peninsula, to promote gastronomy."
Earlier, the Secretary of State said that the Prime Minister, António Costa, was "the biggest enthusiast" for Portugal to host this ceremony, the tenth, which until this year always had been held in Spain.
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Je sui d'accord, à chacun son goût, but Godinho does go overboard on occasions, perhaps a surfeit of vin blanc...
as Ed knows, France had 89m tourists in 2017 and Spain 82m while including Portugal brings this statistic to 94.7m. Grotty Yotty is on the right track.
In my experience, Portuguese food can be very good and at least we can be sure, in most cases, that it is hygenically prepared, and palatable, which is probably more than one could say of Africa.
Keep in mind: it's Always dangerous to think (and to be convinced) you are the best, the nicest, the most performant, the most wanted, the most desired,... in the world
because that's Always the start of the decline and the final self destruction. How can one be so stupid?