The return of Formula 1 to Portugal with a Grand Prix at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, in Portimão, on October 25, is "good news" for the region, considered this Friday the president of the Algarve’s main hotel association.

Costa’s government has launched a plan aimed at boosting its export sector to alleviate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with a goal of increasing exports to 53% of gross domestic product by 2030 from 44% last year.

England is preparing to include Portugal in its list of countries that are safe to travel in the context of a pandemic, thus ending the mandatory 14-day quarantine for all tourists returning from Portugal, claims Brit newspaper The Times.

The numbers have already started to increase in 2020, after a recent forest fire that hit the municipality of Vila do Bispo at the end of June, and one that hit the municipality of Silves earlier this month.

In his near-empty pub in the Algarve in southern Portugal, Samuel Tilley is fuming that coronavirus regulations in his home country of Britain are keeping tourists away, further jeopardizing an already gloomy summer season.

Two scammers who never presented themselves in person and were able to deceive businessmen only through telephone contact were able to cheat at least 50 establishments out of 400 to 600 euros each time, from north to south of the country.

The union representing Portugal’s SEF inspectors considered this Wednesday that recent events over the past few months have demonstrated that there is an illegal immigration route to the Algarve, with Portugal serving as a gateway to wider green grass of Europe.

A group of 21 migrants “from North Africa” who disembarked yesterday evening in Faro, near the Ria Formosa, have already been intercepted and are now in the custody of the GNR and the Foreigners and Borders Service.