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Algarve tour bus aims to attract more Spanish visitors

algarve-tour-bus

Algarve tour bus featuring a massive ‘Algarve’ sign will be setting off on a tour of Spain where it will hold workshops in several important cities with the goal of increasing or creating interest and attracting Spanish visitors to the region outside of the peak-season.




Trans-Guadiana protocol gives new hopes to ‘Eurocity’ region

vila real santo antonio

Even though it seems that only bleak news is coming out of the Algarve, today we’re talking about the Trans-Guadiana protocol, which has been signed between the various traders in cities that line the Guadiana River – which separates Portugal’s Algarve region from Spain’s Andalucia region – which has been the source of some positive feelings amongst business owners on both sides of the river.




A call to end the A22 toll from the Algarve tourism sector

Algarve A22 tolls 2012

Three major figures leading the Algarve tourism sector have recently called for the immediate suspicion of the very controversial toll charges on the A22 motorway – Via do Infante – one of them describing them as being a “gross economic, political and social error”.

Why has this not happened sooner? Well the protest was sparked by the decision of the Portuguese Government to not extend the exemption granted to residents beyond the end of September, even if by all accounts the tourism sector was on the whole expecting it.