Portugal lost, no ano passado, three out of four foreign tourists due to the pandemic. Who refers it is the National Statistics Institute (INE), acrescentando que, except for the first two months of 2020, a pandemic had a significant impact on the annual results of the tourism sector, one of the main engines of the country's economy and that represents more than 8,7% national GDP.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Portugal has decreased 75,7% face a 2019, para um total de 3,99 milhões.
Por sua vez, the domestic market outperformed the external, how is it left 39,2%, totalizando 6,5 milhões de turistas.
With regard to total tourism revenues in 2020, caíram 66%, atingindo os 1.500 milhões de euros. The worst result since 2008.
As for the hotel industry, 10,5 milhões de pessoas, with a breach of 61,3% no número de hóspedes e de 66,1% in turnover for 1,4 mil milhões de euros, According to the INE.
At the international level, INE stresses that all major issuing markets recorded significant losses in excess of 65%, emphasizing that the British are still the most numerous foreign tourists, ahead of the Germans and Spaniards.
Por fim, let it be said that the economy fell 7,6% em 2020, already after a GDP growth of 2,2% in the previous year (2019), according to the first INE estimate published in early February.
