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Paderne guide
Located at about seven kilometers from Albufeira, the small village of Paderne is one of the villages least known to the tourist guides and we’re writing this quick Paderne guide to put it on the map so to speak.
New toll system in the works
The National Road Authority of Portugal is working on a new system of tolls for the formerly free SCUT roads – the A22 motorway is amongst these – because the current tolling scheme has been labeled as ‘ineffective’ and ‘unsustainable’.
Algarve forecasts a good summer season
After reporting the past couple of months about the rather hard times that the Algarve has been going through and the fact that it will most likely have to go through a few more bad high seasons, today we have a bit of good news because the Tourism Board has forecast a much better summer season for 2013.
Some Algarve peak season 2012 numbers
Considering the tough economic times that the entire European region has been going through, and is expected to still go through for the near future, especially the rising economic problems in both Portugal and Spain, the prospects for tourism in the Algarve were not extremely optimist, looking from the outside.
It turns out however, that the Algarve peak season tourism numbers have met the expectations of the local Algarve Hotels and Resorts Association, in fact they were slightly larger than the numbers in the same period of 2011.
