This year, Portugal’s tourism industry reached a major milestone, breaking previous records and contributing more than €54 billion to the country’s economy. A recent estimate from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) states that the tourism industry contributed 20% of the country’s GDP in 2024, a phenomenal gain of [...]
A new law that will change the procedures for obtaining a passport from Portugal is about to be put into effect. This law will make it more difficult for Sephardic Jews and some other communities to become citizens of Portugal. On the other hand, the bill intends to make it [...]
The Algarve region had a hotel and tourist facility room occupancy rate of 34.8% in the previous month, which is 1.4 percentage points higher than the similar figure from 2022. Nonetheless, the region saw a 1.2 percentage point decline in comparison to the pre-pandemic period in December 2019. The Dutch [...]
Between January and November of this year, Portugal issued four times as many work visas to citizens of Cape Verde. During this time, Portugal issued 6,208 work visas for Cape Verdeans, according to data from the Portuguese embassy in Praia. Of these, 3,932 were given for job searching, and 2,276 [...]
An estimated €5 billion could be injected into Portugal over the next ten years if Portugal is successful in redirecting half of the foreign investment that was previously intended for real estate toward investments in commercial enterprises via OIC (Collective Investment Organizations), according to the Portugal News.This possible change in [...]
Portugal has almost 700,000 unanswered visa applications, which has led immigrants to demand a speedier visa processing procedure. The sluggish and bureaucratic legalizing procedure in Portugal has drawn the attention of the president of the Portuguese Association for Social Integration of Immigrants (APISI). He questioned the Agency for Integration, Migrations [...]
Since opening in 2015, Nazare’s Fort of Sao Miguel Arcanjo has attracted an astounding two million tourists to the Leira region. The Nazare Council reports that this attraction just this week passed the two million visitor threshold, paving the way for the place to set new standards around the world. [...]