Portuguese tourism market booming

Portugal has become one of the favorite destinations of the French.

Indeed, the number of French visitors to Portugal increased by 44% over the past two years. Resulting from the sale to french in Lisbon of more than 1 million overnight stays during this year and more than 200 weekly flights between Paris - Lisbon, Porto and Faro. These figures reveal an explosion of Portuguese tourism market.

Portugal was able to meet all the conditions to become a destination of choice, as indicated by the various testimonies of French tourists.

"We prefer to come to Portugal rather than Maghreb, or including in Tunisia, where always the risk at any time of suffering terrorist attacks," said a French tourist and others.

Finally, it also reflects a growing increase of the interest for this country by the major French retailers. Such as "Intermarché" which operates 230 stores in Portugal.