The government is extending the Algarve 365 programme of cultural events for another season, starting in October and ending in May 2020
The initial objective was to combat seasonality, improving the tourist experience in the Algarve municipalities, and created a quality cultural programme.
'The losses already caused by Brexit in 2018,' was the key agenda item at a meeting of the newly appointed Executive Committee of Algfuturo.
The committee concluded that, "talking about the problems of Brexit in the tourism sector is talking about the Algarve, since two thirds of the nights spent by UK citizens are in the Algarve. Also, of the total overnight stays of foreigners in hotels in the Algarve, about 40% are from the UK."
A new walkway and pontoon has been installed at Praia de Faro, replacing the old infrastructure that was beyond its useful life and anyway, was destroyed in the April 2017 storms that battered the Algarve coastline.
Leisure and fishing boat owners will be safer using the new pontoon, which cost €148,900.
A fire this morning at the Pestana Viking Hotel site in Senhora da Rocha, Lagoa, forced management to evacuate guests from the popular hotel.
According to the commander of the Lagoa Bombeiros, Vítor Rio, the station received the alert shortly before 08:00 on Wednesday morning.
To the unbridled joy of EN125 road users crawling through the slow-moving traffic of Olhão, a new roundabout is being created to ‘ease the pain’.
The Council remains determined to build the roundabout at the junction between Avenida D. João VI and the road north to Pechão.
A test is being carried out in Switzerland which may pave the way for IKEA stores to stat renting out their stock.
Office furniture and kitchens are the first categories to be tested as a rental products and, according to Ikea Portugal, "new solutions are being explored in the initial stages of testing," choosing not to deny of confirm that the scheme would be rolled out across Portugal.
German holiday airline Germania collapsed on Tuesday, cancelling all flights, after failing to secure emergency funding.
Germania, which carried around four million passengers each year, follows the failure of Air Berlin in 2017.
José Mourinho has joined the list of shame and now has to pay a €2 million fine in order to stay out of Spanish jail
Mourinho accepted a one-year prison sentence and a €2-million fine for defrauding the Spanish Tax Agency back in 2011 and 2012 costing the taxman €1.6 million and €1.7 million respectively.
