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24.6 million arrivals from non-resident tourists
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24.6 million arrivals from non-resident tourists - 2019
23 July 2020

Summary

In 2019, estimations show that the number of non-resident tourists arriving in Portugal reached 24.6 million, corresponding to a growth of 7.9% compared to the previous year (+7.5% in 2018). Spain remained the main market (share of 25.5%; +0.1 p.p.), having grown by 8.2% in 2019 (+8.9% in 2018). Outside the European Union, the highlight was the 23.2% increase in tourists from the United States.
Considering the whole set of means of accommodation, in 2019 there were 29.5 million guests and 77.8 million overnight stays, corresponding to increases of 7.4% and 4.3%, respectively (+5.1% and +3.3%, in the same order, in 2018). The domestic market generated 26.1 million overnight stays (33.6% of the total) and grew by 5.9% in 2019 (+6.0% in 2018). Overnight stays of the external markets (66.4% of the total) increased by 3.5% (+2.0% in 2018) and reached 51.7 million overnight stays. The United Kingdom remained the main inbound market with 18.8% of the total overnight stays from non-residents.
In 2019, residents in Portugal made a total of 24.5 million tourism trips, corresponding to an increase of 10.8% (after +4.2% in 2018 and +5.0% in 2017). The number of trips taken within the national territory amounted to 21.4 million (+9.0%, after +3.2% in the previous year), corresponding to 87.3% of the total. Travel abroad totalled 3.1 million (+24.7%, after +13.3% in 2018).


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