According to statistics of air transport in 2013, today reported by the National Statistics Institute (INE), since 2008 the movement of landed passengers increased 20.8%, with an average annual growth of 3.2%.
However, the period began with a reduction of 5.3% in 2009 (to 10.4 million passengers), “which may have been due mainly to the global economic and financial crisis”, and it has witnessed in the years following a “strong recovery” (27.6% at 5 years), especially concentrated in 2010 and 2011, when the debark increased 7.7% and 8.9%, respectively.
These data comprise a comparative analysis between the movement of passengers transported by air and the activity of tourist accommodation in Portugal in 2008-2013, conducted by INE given the “importance of the sectors of transport and tourism for economic growth.”
According to the institute, the activity of tourist accommodation registered an average annual growth of 2.9% in non-resident guests and overnight stays at 2.3% between 2008 and 2013.
During the period, the non-resident guests in tourist accommodation increased by 19%, from 7.7 million to 9.2 million, an average annual growth rate of non-residents and their guests overnights been +2.9% and +2 3%, respectively, with the year 2013 to stand out as one in which non-resident guests more increased (+ 8.9%).
Similarly to what happened to debark on international air traffic, 2009 was marked by a sharp drop in guests (8.4%) and in the respective nights (10.6%), and in subsequent years been the trend of recovery.
In regional terms, the most significant growths were situated in the North and in the Azores, between 2008 and 2013, with increases of 34.1% and 30.8%, respectively, in the number of guests in tourist accommodations.
In the nights, the North remained as the region with the most favorable development between 2008 and 2013 (+ 38.3%), but the Alentejo region stood out with a rise of 36.4% of overnight stays.
The weight of Spain in tourist accommodation establishments stands out against its weight in international air transport, which is “symptomatic of the use of road borders by the guests with this provenance.”
Conversely, the UK, France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, have greater weight in international air transport over the weight they have in the tourist accommodation, either by major European airports `hub` that are located there, or because of large Portuguese communities in these countries, generating tourists to Portugal but with recourse to private accommodation.
The INE also notes the case of tourists from the United States of America, “many of whom arrived in the Portuguese territory without being via direct flights, making transshipment other European airports.”
Between 2008 and 2013, the movement of landed passengers increased 45.7% in the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (Porto), with an average annual growth of 6.5%, while at Lisbon airport the rise was 21.3%, with an average annual growth of 3.3%.
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