O ano passado foi, desde 2008, aquele em que mais passageiros desembarcaram em Portugal em tráfego aéreo internacional, com um total de 13,3 millions of landings, mais 20,8% than five years before, recently released the National Institute of statistics (INE).
According to the air transport statistics in 2013, now reported by INE, desde 2008 the movement of passengers landed has increased 20,8%, with an annual average rate of change 3,2%.
Contudo, the period began with a reduction of 5,3% em 2009 (para 10,4 milhões de passageiros), that may have been due essentially to the global financial and economic crisis, having been in the years following a strong recovery (27,6% em 5 anos), especially focused on 2010 e 2011, When the passengers disembarked increased 7,7% e 8,9%, respectivamente.
Like what happened to the passengers landed in international air traffic, 2009 It was marked by a strong recoil in guests (8,4%) and in their overnight stays (10,6%), taking in the following years the trend of recovery.
Spain's weight in the establishments of tourist accommodation stands in the face of the your little weight in international carriage by air, What is it symptomatic of the border road use by guests with this provenance.
In opposite direction, Reino Unido, France and, to a lesser extent, the Germany, have greater weight in international air transport in relation to the weight they have in the tourist accommodation, by important European hub airports ' that there are, the existence of large Portuguese communities in these countries, generators of tourists bound for Portugal but with recourse to private accommodation.
The INE stresses also the case of the United States of America tourists, many of whom close to Portuguese territory without being by way of direct flights, by transhipment in other European airports.
Entre 2008 e 2013, the movement of passengers landed has increased 45,7% the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (Porto), with an average annual growth rate of 6,5%, While at the airport of Lisbon the rise was 21,3%, with an average annual growth rate of 3,3%.
