A Turismo do Porto e Norte de Portugal (TPNP) disclosed that the region of Porto and North of Portugal registered 1,138 million overnight stays in August, dos quais 56% were national tourists.
This number represents about less than 300 thousand nights than August 2019, which represents a sign that the recovery is being positive in the region..
Note that the number of nights below 2019 is still due to some constraints, such as mandatory quarantines after visiting Portugal in some outbound markets, as Germany, Brasil, Canada and the USA.
In the accumulated, entre Janeiro e Agosto, TPNP registered 3,32 milhões de dormidas, a value still far from the 7,2 millions of overnight stays of 2019, but with more positive values than the 3,076 millions of overnight stays of 2020.
Also according to the quarterly report North Conjuncture of the North Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-N), overnight stays in tourist establishments in the North were of 1,1 million in the 2nd quarter of 2021, that compares with just 305 thousand in the same period of 2020.
