Tourism industry, travel trends, and visitor statistics for Portugal.
Portugal's Ministry of Culture has launched a new online platform offering virtual visits to 90 heritage spaces and access to 232 national treasures, from Batalha Monastery to Mafra National Palace.
Portugal drew a record 30 million visitors in 2025 and is now steering its tourism strategy from volume toward value. Turismo de Portugal has backed ten projects with €2.4 million, all outside the crowded Lisbon and Algarve cores, as authorities forecast only 2–2.5% more visitors in 2026 but 4.5–5.5
Coimbra's council is set to vote on Monday to double its municipal tourist tax from €1 to €2 per person per night. The city calculates each overnight stay costs it about €3.49 in services and infrastructure, against €726,000 raised by the levy in 2025, and says the higher rate still falls short of t
Reported pickpocketing in Lisbon rose almost 10% in the first half of 2026, with 1,770 cases — about ten a day — logged by the PSP. Belém and the streets around São Jorge Castle are the hotspots, even as arrests for the crime fell nearly 21%.
The Port of Lisbon handled a record 81,735 cruise passengers in June, up 53% on June 2025 and above the previous 2024 high, across 37 ship calls — its busiest June ever — as high-spending turnaround traffic led the first half's steadier 5% growth.
For the first time since 2015, the Alentejo town of Campo Maior stages its UNESCO-listed Festas do Povo from 8 to 16 August, with thousands of residents making paper flowers to blanket up to 100 streets in a festival held only when the townspeople decide.
One of the Algarve's most celebrated cultural landmarks has come back to life. On Saturday, the Museu da Cortiça (Cork Museum) in Silves — the medieval former capital of the Algarve, set on the banks of the Rio Arade (Arade River) — reopened its...
