Terceira Island with charter flights to Madrid and Boston from October – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The island of Terceira in the Azores, is set to have flights Charter Weekly from Boston, USA, and Madrid, Spain, from October, the aim being to increase by 11,580 the number annual tourists, it was announced on Tuesday.

                     

                         The Boston operation will take place during designated “IATA winter” (the low season) and the Madrid throughout the year under two “partnership protocols of tourism promotion operations for the third island,” signed Tuesday in Angra do Heroísmo, between the Tourism Association of the Azores and two operators.

“These two operations could be reflected in coming to the Third of over 11,580 tourists [annually], resulting in an estimated number of about 81,000 overnight stays, “said the Regional Secretary of Tourism and Transport of the Azores, Vítor Fraga during an intervention in the protocol signing ceremony.

According to the Regional Secretary, the Association of Azores tourism invested around two million euros in these two operations, with “direct return in the economy of the region and specifically of Terceira” estimated at more than eight million euros.

Victor Fraga added that the prediction is that “these operations take an extensible multiplier effect to all the islands of the central group” (which includes, in addition to Terceira, Graciosa islands, Faial, São Jorge and Pico).

These operations aim to respond the “stark seasonality” of the Third tourism, which in the winter months did not follow the growth level registered sector throughout the region, further explained the regional secretary.

The Azores tourism has grown over 20 % since November last year. The Third, the past two months, growth was 21%, but the cumulative increase in the first half of the year stood at 8%.

There are other situations of islands that have lagged the global tourism growth Azores:. Graciosa and Santa Maria, where Victor Fraga also announced last week, measures to promote locally sector

Today, the journalists, the Regional Secretary has stressed that all these measures and partnerships aimed at making the tourism sector in the Azores “increasingly sustainable.”

Before the intervention made during the ceremony, said that tourism is “a key sector for the development of the Azores” and welcomed by the archipelago have today have “a level of international relief notoriety, consolidating its position as an important and genuine tourist destination with a distinctly nature matrix”.

When asked by journalists about the possible entry of low cost in Third Vítor Fraga reiterated that only talk about this issue “when there is something concrete” to understand that one should not “play with people’s expectations.”