In the 1st quarter of 2025, trips taken by residents in Portugal increased by 16.0% (following a 3.1% rise in the 4th quarter of 2024), totaling 5.2 million trips. Domestic travel continued to grow (+15.6%), reaching 4.5 million trips (86.3% of all travel). Trips abroad also maintained the upward trajectory observed in the las two quarters of 2025, increasing by 18.5% and totaling 710.5 thousand trips (13.7% do total). 

The main purposes for travel in the 1st quarter of 2025 were “visit to relatives or friends”, which accounted for 2.1 million trips (40.9% of the total, -6.3 p.p. compared to the 1st quarter of 2024), and “leisure, recreation or holidays”, which motivated a similar number of trips (approximately 2.1 million, or 40.8%, up 3.1 p.p. from the 1st quarter of 2024).

“Hotels and similar” establishments accounted for 26.5% of overnight stays (3.8 million) resulting from residents’ tourist trips in the 1st quarter of 2025, being surpassed by “free private accommodation”, which remained the most common type of lodging, accounting for 64.7% of overnight stays, with 9.2 million nights spent by residents.

In terms of trip planning, the internet was used in 27.1% of cases (+1.8 p.p.), having this solution been used in 76.2% of trips abroad (+4.1 p.p.) and in 19.4% of domestic trips (+1.3 p.p.).