The most important news in December of tourism and the remarkable heritage of Portugal (2011)
January 1, 2012 by Castile
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Opened Central Reservations Schist Villages
The Schist Villages launched its Central Reservation aa online this month.
Opportunities abound for discovering the best that the Schist Villages have to offer in a region in Portugal is very depressed.
A unique destination with unique offerings!
The Central Booking online will facilitate the marking of accommodation in this fantastic country. Available in Portuguese, Spanish and English, this platform provides a diverse offering that meets high standards of quality and service. These lodges are selected, therefore, recognized with the seal of official partners of the Network of Schist Villages.
This platform will thus enhance the scale of international promotion and dissemination of this region and its capital gains. Discover the many advantages that this Reservation Center has to offer, with all the speed and convenience, without leaving home.
To learn more about the Schist Villages visit www.aldeiasdoxisto.pt
Library of the University of Coimbra the world's most beautiful
The Baroque Library, University of Coimbra was considered the most beautiful university library in the world, moves this week CV, online television channel of the institution of higher education.
The library appears at the top of the ranking of the most beautiful university libraries portal Flavorwire and international guide Flavorpill, New York, the ranking of authorship of literary editor Emily Temple.
The distinction puts this library Portuguese Baroque style renowned above other libraries such as Yale University, USA, and University of Salamanca in Spain, which ranked 2nd and 3rd places in the standings, respectively.
In the list were also the libraries of Oxford, Cambridge or Chicado, a total of 25 spaces from different universities worldwide.
The Baroque Library, which owes its name to D. John V, monarch in power when its construction dates from the eighteenth century and is located in the courtyard of the Law Faculty of Coimbra University, receiving numerous studies but also serving space for concerts, exhibitions and other cultural events.
Click HERE to access the full ranking in Flavorwire.
Guimarães European Capital of Culture in 2012
The eleven years the city of Porto in 2001, was the European capital of culture, a massive undertaking that, good or bad, changed the city. In 2012, it is time to Guimarães receive the testimony along with Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia.
From 21 to January 28, 2012 Guimarães invites all to live a special week of discovering what is the European Capital of Culture in 2012, in Guimarães.
The official opening starts on Saturday 21, by 18:00 hours, with a multidisciplinary protocol and ceremony opening until 20.00 hours. Then, by 22:00 pm, at Largo do Toural begins an unforgettable spectacle of the street, opening Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. From midnight, the party enters and infects the city for all the bars, streets, squares and plazas of the historic center of Guimarães. Is "The first night".
Throughout the week there will be brand new exhibitions waiting, routes in the city to be discovered, music and movies to be heard to be seen, as well as stories to be counted, laboratories and workshops to be experienced to be worked.
The following Saturday, the opening week celebrates the interpretation of Guimarães as European Capital of Culture, welcoming a new breed of contemporary dance developed in Guimarães, bringing music to the homes of Guimarães and inviting Buraka Som Sistema for a concert.
A course that fills Guimarães and culture at a pace that is here to stay all year, Guimarães is the stage of European culture in 2012. It is also your stage in 2012.
Query the opening week of the program here .
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Requiem for Your River Valley
Endures the torment with the destruction of the valley of the river Tua, but we can not stop fighting because we still have hope for such a crime that is canceled. This month the controversy continued to read what he wrote José Pacheco Pereira "communist and radical environmentalist" in an article on this remarkable radical majestic space and hideous wickedness against Portugal that is being committed
http://abrupto.blogspot.com/2011/12/estragar-o-pouco-que-resta-eu-sou-o.html
The whole controversy can be read here:
http://alinhaetua.blogspot.com/
Worst month of November to the Algarve in November in 16 years
The hotel occupancy rate in the Algarve this year was "the worst November in 16 years", Lusa said today the president of the Association of Hotels and resorts in the Algarve (AHETA).
The overall average occupancy rate / quarter was 24.2%, ie 9.2% less than in November 2010 and 40% less than in 1996, said Elidérico Viegas.
According to hotel manager, the figures "would be even worse were taken into account establishments closed at this time, in numbers never before seen in off-peak seasons."
In addition to the decrease in overnight stays registered in Portuguese, which is around 10 percent, external demand in recent weeks "also went into free fall," after a few months he has sustained losses due to decreased competitiveness of destinations that are competing direct in Arab markets, he said.
In November, by nationality, the main decreases were registered in the German (-23.8%) and national (14.8%), but all source markets recorded declines.
In the crisis economies and families, the president of the Algarve's main hotel association attributes the losses to factors such as declining competitiveness of domestic tourism, the high taxation and the lack of a strategy for air transport.
"We have the most expensive airports in Europe in relation to our competitors in the Mediterranean basin," he said.
He criticized the policies of higher taxes, which among other effects' also has the perverse effect of making us have a bad image as a country "in the eyes of those who visit us.
"And the worst is not the crisis, is no future prospects," he said, predicting that the combined negative effect on tourism in the Algarve of the VAT hike in restaurants and golf, tolls on the Via do Infante (A22), the end the bridges end-of-week and families in crisis.
According to data released today by AHETA, the best November in 16 years for the occupancy rates in the Algarve was in 1999 with 55.8 percent and since 2007 (40.3) rates have fallen consecutively: 33.5 in 2008 , 29.9 in 2009 26.7 in 2010 and 24.2 in 2011.
The total turnover in November showed a decline of 10.7% YoY.
Removed from the site Lusa / SOL
Maioriados Portuguese trades holiday away from home in 2012
The habits of holiday Christmas and New Year of the Portuguese continue to be what they were despite the sharpening of the crisis. A study by the Institute for Tourism Planning and Development (IPDT), which had access to the Economic Daily found that 92.6% of respondents will not take a holiday outside the home this holiday season. This value is slightly higher than the 91% last year. The crisis is the main reason given for not traveling during this period.
"There is a large percentage of Portuguese who do not expect a holiday this year," but "there was no dramatic impact that was waiting for" fruit of the economic crisis and the austerity measures that the Government has implemented and are already being felt in the pockets of Portuguese President stresses the IPDT, Antonio Jorge Costa. "Perhaps because tourism is a sector somewhat apart from" the rest of the economy, which "shows some resilience" to the crisis, he explains.
Only 7.4% of more than four hundred respondents will enjoy their holidays abroad. And 59.3% of the sample plans to spend the same as in 2010. However, there are 33.3% will spend less and that "monetary issues are the reason for this behavior," reads the study to ascertain the intention of the Portuguese holiday feasts year-end 2012 and that the Economic Daily had access. The vast majority of Portuguese who goes on holiday celebrations in the year-end (76.9%) have a period of leisure with a length similar to 2010.
The intentions of the Portuguese holiday for next year are fully toldadas pessimism. Over 71% of respondents will not take a holiday outside the place of residence and is "the crisis and the austerity measures that justify the decision," forward Antonio Jorge Costa. This is the justification for 56.5% of the Portuguese in the survey that will be on vacation at home next year.
The austerity measures will have "great impact on disposable income" of these people, says the same charge. In the study, it appears that 60.4% of respondents said that austerity has "much influence" in return for a holiday away from home in 2012.
For Antonio Jorge Costa, Portuguese tourism industry will have to "bet on creativity and quality of the teams" to win in a year when domestic demand is low and where the sector will have to beat yourself up "with lack of competitiveness in prices. " After all, 40% of the sales of 'resorts' concern the restoration, which will see the VAT to 23% compounded.
The official points "partnerships with operators and a policy of engagement with their stakeholders" as a solution to "minimize the shock is expected." António Jorge Costa also stressed that the sector should "try to capture other markets, as has been done, examples of which are Brazil, North America and Canada."
Still, about 28.6% of respondents intend to holiday outside the place of residence in 2012, when last year this figure stood at 32.9%. And those who go on vacation, "most plans to spend the same and take the same holiday period, not changing the typology of consumption," notes the president of the IPDT. Holidays are over ten days, which provide an average consumption of around 924 euros.
António Jorge Costa points out, however, that "31.4% thought reducing spending, including housing, opting largely for family home." The reason for the crisis is to spend less, which receives 87.5% of responses.
Source: Economic Daily
