Tourism industry, travel trends, and visitor statistics for Portugal.
Veterans of Portuguese aviation reframed the Lisbon airport queues story on Thursday — the cause is 'saturação estrutural', a decade of 70% passenger growth absorbed by an unchanged terminal. Vinci's 29 May reinforcement lifts boxes to 34 and e-gates to 32.
Bad Bunny opens his first-ever Portuguese run at the Estádio da Luz on Tuesday 26 May, with the second night booked for Wednesday 27 May. The Puerto Rican headliner arrived in Lisbon on Monday and the venue gates open at 17h00, with Spanish indie...
Quercus's 2026 Praias com Qualidade de Ouro list certifies 434 Portuguese bathing sites on bathing-water analytical readings alone — eight more than 2025, with Tejo-Oeste at 93 and the Algarve adding two to reach 86 as Fontes and Boaventura make their list debut.
The Associação dos Hotéis e Empreendimentos Turísticos do Algarve (AHETA) is pressing the Portuguese government to suspend the European Entry-Exit System (EES) at Faro Airport for the duration of the 2026 summer peak, citing biometric-registration...
Zero's 2026 Zero Poluição list carries 73 beaches with no detected microbiological contamination across three bathing cycles — eight fewer than 2025. Grândola leads with six, Porto Santo with five; 23 entries in, 31 out versus last year.
The Vinci Airports group, the French operator that runs the Portuguese ANA concession, posted a 2.3% year-on-year increase in passenger traffic across the eight Portuguese commercial airports during April 2026, the group confirmed in its monthly...
APA closed the €150,000 emergency stabilisation of the Praia de Moledo seawall ahead of the bathing season after winter storms tore stones off the paredão. PM Montenegro tours on 18 May; a €4.5 million phase-two coastal defence for Moledo and Vila Praia de Âncora starts in October.
