With the flood of tourists expected this year, even in the low season, many hotel owners have said that their winter closure plans are on hold.
 
The growth in tourist number for 2016 is rising weekly as bookings roar ahead of last year’s total for summer and wintertime breaks.

The number of British bankers being paid more than €1 million a year soared to almost 3,000 in 2014.

This was more than three times as many as the rest of the EU combined, according to the European Banking Authority (EBA).

The president of the Águas de Portugal Group has resigned by email over a disagreement with the Government over policy.
    
Afonso Lobato Faria has rejected the new Socialist Government’s plan to reverse consolidation of Portugal’s 19 water companies into 5 operating companies and to suspend plans to sell the business into private hands.

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Regional water company, Águas do Algarve invested in a photovoltaic energy production system at its water treatment plant in Tavira as the company continues to pursue its green, cost savings agenda.

The Secretary of State for the Environment finished his tour of the Algarve last week by ‘launching’ this Algarve utility even though the Tavira scheme has been producing electricity since last July.

The US government is to drop its court case against Apple as a result of the FBI finding a way to unlock an encrypted iPhone.

The phone had been used by one of the California terrorists who, together with his wife, shot and killed 14 people last year.

One drinks manufacturer has risen to the challenge of the UK government’s announced tax on sugar.

Scottish producer AG Barr, which brings Irn-Bru to the market, has said that by the time the tax comes into effect in April 2018 that at least two-thirds of its products will be sugar free or low sugar.

The Algarve’s Social Democrat party wants to revive the political debate on turning the region into a self-governing zone.

The discussion took place at the party’s district assembly held in Loulé last week and the proposal is set to be taken up at the 36th PSD national congress in early April.