The new head of the Algarve Tourism Region (RTA), is running for the presidency of the other tourism body in the region, the Algarve Tourism Association (ATA).
João Fernandes (pictured) wants the two tourism entities to ‘speak with one voice’ to promote the internal and external promotion of the Algarve.
A fracture was detected at the marble quarry near Borba where the road collapsed into the quarry below, on November 19th, killing five people.
A study by a team from the University of Évora detected a fracture in 2008 and recommended that road be shut to traffic.
Claude Berda and Paula Amorim are the new owners of the tourist assets of Herdade da Comporta
The Vanguard-Amorim Properties consortium was used to buy the assets of the Herdade da Comporta Fund: Comporta Links and Comporta Dunes.
A 21-year-old man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of killing a 29-year-old woman near Quarteira this summer.
Tatiana Mestre’s partially burnt body was found in a car on scrubland on August 27th. She had been beaten, tied up, gagged, murdered and the car set alight.
Kate and Gerry McCann have rejected the latest theory that Madeleine wandering out of the holiday apartment looking for them, was hit by a vehicle and hr body taken away and later dumped.
The latest theory doing the rounds is that the three-year-old left the apartment in Praia da Luz, of her own accord, before she disappeared but Kate and Gerry McCann insist that their daughter was kidnapped by someone while they were on holiday in May 2007.
The governor of the Bank of Portugal said at a dinner on Sunday that people’s aspirations simply can not be met in the current economy.
Speaking at the Porto Business School, Carlos Costa stated that, "It is clear to all that the aspirations of individual well-being and collective equity of Portuguese society today exceed the production capacity of the economy.
The Government has accepted proposals from the Left Bloc and the Communist Party to create a new tier in the IMI Additional Tax regime, raising the taxation rate on combined property assets above €2 million.
Of concern to only the wealthy, but yet another reason to question investing in Portuguese real estate, the current 1% rate will become 1.5% next year.
In attempt to scupper the sale of the Herdade da Comporta estate to developers, Portugal’s top environmental organisations, including Zero, Quercus and the League for the Protection of Nature, today issued a statement that there is no "public interest" that justifies the ruination of this natural area.
The former Grupo Espiríto Santo asset is to be sold off to Amorim Luxury SA and Port Noir Investments SARL - better known as Vanguard Properties – as long as the creditors of Gesfimo approve the sale at a meeting this week.
