Tourism rebounds in Portugal from pandemic slump, but return to record unlikely | Reuters

"According to Portugal's statistics office INE, hotels and restaurants employed 266,600 people in the first quarter of 2022, 45,200 more than in the same period last year, but 33,200 less than in the first three months of 2019."

“The number of tourists visiting Portugal recovered to 5.9 million in 2021, a year after plunging to 3.9 million, its worst results since the mid-1980s and far off the record 16.4 million in 2019,” according to Reuters…READ MORE

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