The Algarve hotel occupancy rate for July was 87.4%, a rise of 2% on the same month in 2015, said the Association of Hotels and Resorts in the Algarve (AHETA).
This is the highest July occupancy rate for 16 years when in 2000 the figure was 89.4% but this dropped in 2004 to 70.5%, the lowest since AHETA started publishing the stats in 1996.
The fire that tore through a forest area to the north east of Messines was declared 'over and out' early this morning after a night of heroic struggle to contain and quench the flames.
The blaze led to the evacuation of 49 people whose homes were threatened by the fire which started on Monday afternoon and led to a pall of smoke over much of the central Algarve region.
One of Portugal’s largest construction companies, Soares da Costa Construção, SGPS, SA, has applied for creditor protection under the special revitalisation process.
The workers should be pleased as the move means that frozen wages soon could be released as many have serious wage arrears with those stuck in Angola unable to return to Portugal due to lack of funds.
A massive forest fire in the Canary Islands is still blazing after six days.
The inferno is believed to have been started by a German man who was burning used toilet paper.
German car maker Volkswagen has been fined €5 million for its chicanery with emission tests, the Italian competition authority said on Monday.
The fine was imposed for “improper business practices”. The authority said that vehicles designed to deceive pollution tests had been marketed in Italy since 2009.
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GNR military is pulling over motorists entering the country to ensure the smooth running of an obligatory questionnaire for the National Institute of Statistics.
Questions, including the names of driver and occupants, destination, length of visit and the amount of money that visitors are planning to spend, are being asked at Portugal's road entry points, ports and airports.
Galp has made another tentative step to increase its service station network’s provision of electrical ‘fast charging’ points, claiming that drivers of electrical and hybrid vehicles can get from Lisbon to the Algarve using only their battery power.
In collaboration with BMW, Nissan, Renault and Volkswagen, with the technological support of Efacec, there now is a corridor of fast charging points - ‘fast’ in this case meaning 30 minutes.
A fire has swept through the tinder-dry countryside in Perna Seca to the north of São Bartolomeu de Messines in the Silves area of the Algarve.
The blaze broke out this afternoon at around 15:00 and is being tackled by over 200 firemen. Four helicopters were deloyed to dump water on the flames.
