Tourism industry, travel trends, and visitor statistics for Portugal.
A new deal with the Algarve International Circuit keeps MotoGP in Portugal to 2029. This year's race runs 20 to 22 November, after a record 166,000 fans in 2025.
More than 90 percent of single tickets on the Cais do Sodré to Cacilhas ferry are sold to tourists, the company's chair says. He will seek an above-inflation rise to cut its reliance on the state budget.
Despacho n.º 11520/2026 reopens the Espichel-Odeceixe coastal programme four years after it was approved, after an inspection of 45 kilometres of Grândola coast between Troia and Melides. Sixteen bodies sit on the advisory committee; the beach concessionaires attend only when invited.
Twenty-five years after the idea was first put to the town, and five after the national commission rejected the first attempt, the bid now belongs to the Portuguese State rather than to the council.
The European Heritage Days run from Friday to 27 September. Most activities are free, many open places that are normally closed, and the theme this year is heritage at risk. Here is what is on and where.
Three years closed, 15.1 million euros of recovery-plan money, and a Macbeth that deliberately echoes the night of 2 December 1964. Entry is free until Sunday.
A travel-agency association puts 65.6 percent of 2025 foreign trips outside July to September, on a record 3.858 million. Spain took 38.8 percent of them, and the first quarter of 2026 ran 30 percent ahead of the year before.
