The president of the Organization Regional Tourism of the Algarve, Desiderio Silva, stresses on the data from this year to October, the region “continues to be the engine of tourism in Portugal.”
The Algarve tourism sector registered a record overnight stays in 2014, adding the first 10 months 760,000 more overnight stays than in all of last year, announced Monday the Regional Entity of the Algarve Tourism (ERTA) .
Citing of tourism data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the Algarve Tourism welcomed by the region have achieved a “strengthen positive results” in 2014, reaching from January to October a total of 15.5 million overnight stays.
“From January to October, the housing units in the region reached 15.5 million overnight stays, a value 11.2% above the same period. In 10 first months of the year, the Algarve was currently about 760,000 overnight stays more than the overall last year, which closed with a total of 14.7 million overnight stays, “quantified the Algarve Tourism in a statement.
The president of ERTA, Desiderio Silva noted that the data are “confirmation of the best forecasts for the destination” in 2014 and prove that the Algarve “remains the engine of tourism in Portugal.”
The head of the Algarve Tourism considered that the sector will have just one year “remarkable at all levels, whether in overnight stays, both in number of guests and revenue.”
The INE data point to a growth in total tourism income in the Algarve 14.1%, to obtain revenues of EUR 665 million, recording that “is also new high” and exceeded EUR 610 million from around the year 2013.
For these increases was, according to the Tourism of the Algarve, “a great encouragement enlarged internal market of Portugal and Spain.”
“The main source markets, we highlight the growth counterparts the United Kingdom (+ 8.8% to five million overnight stays), Germany (+ 5.5% to 1.47 million) and Spain (+ 26.8% to 836,000), “recorded the ERTA.
In hotel establishments there was still “a rise of 15% over the same period of 2013″ in the number of guests, which was 3.3 million, while last year ended with a total of 3 , 1 million, added the Turismo do Algarve.
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