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Portugal is surrounded to the west and the south by the Atlantic Ocean and it shares borders with Spain to the north and the east. For statistical purposes, the nation with a population of 10 million is officially divided into seven regions: five on the mainland and two insular areas (the Azores and Madeira). Lisbon, the smallest Portuguese continental region and home to the country’s hom*onymous capital city, was by a wide margin Portugal's most popular travel destination for international tourists in 2021. However, tourists in other Portuguese regions tend to spend more time in their destinations.
Spain: Portugal’s main tourism partner
The geographical proximity between Portugal and Spain has turned the latter country into the main source market for international tourists in Portugal, besides being the most popular outbound destination for Portuguese travelers. In 2021, Spain accounted for roughly three in ten inbound tourists in Portugal, while representing 44 percent of the trips taken by Portuguese international tourists that year.
The role of tourism in the Portuguese economy
Before COVID-19, the tourism sector represented almost one-fifth of Portugal’s economy. However, the global crisis caused the tourism contribution to GDP to drop by more than half in 2020. But despite this setback, Portugal remained among the top three most tourism-dependent countries in the European Union in 2020 and 2021. In that latter year, the Portuguese tourism payment balance, which shows the difference between the inflows and outflows from international tourism, was close to 6.4 billion euros from the nearly five billion recorded in the first year of the pandemic.
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Published by Beatriz Luz, Jan 9, 2024
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