Tourist travel by residents
Increase in tourism demand by residents in the third quarter of 2005
- 3rd Quarter 2005
28 December 2005
Summary
In the summer of 2005 Portuguese residents made a total of 4.5 million trips, which corresponds to a 1.1% increase from the same period of the previous year.
Leisure, recreation and holidays were the reasons for most of the trips (63.5%). Approximately half of these (50.3%) occurred in August, Algarve being the main destination, with 31.0% of total overnight stays.