Late this evening (15.03), ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, announced that Madeira's International Airport was functioning normally, after two days of cancellations due to the bad weather, equating to more than 100 flights since Sunday.
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Late this evening, the Porto Santo Line announced that their scheduled return from Porto Santo tomorrow will be brought forward to 12:30, due to worsening weather conditions at the port of Funchal tomorrow.
The PSD Parliamentary Group complained yesterday that the Madeiran economy is at the mercy of the Government of the Republic, as lack of funding for new equipment at the airport is creating an unstable platform from which Madeira has to operate from.
An article published in British magazine, 'House & Garden,' promotes Madeira as a destination that has reinvented itself over the last two decades, and an "ideal" post-confinement holiday destination.
While inaugurating a new petrol station in Porto Santo, the President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, said that Porto Santo's economy was holding steady, after a successful summer where the island's population swelled to almost 33,000 people during August.
It has been confirmed that from this Saturday, Edelweiss Air will be flying directly between Madeira and Geneva, Switzerland.
The Vice-President of the Regional Government, Pedro Calado hopes that on the 21st of June or before, the United Kingdom will include Madeira on its safe to travel green list, especially as the region only has 70 active cases at the moment.
Just after 9:40 this morning, the much anticipated Tui direct flight from London Gatwick to Porto Santo arrived. Marking the occasion the Municipality of Porto Santo did not delay in sharing their joy via their social network pages, simply saying 'Welcome Back.'
British operators anticipate up to a 600% increase in reservations for the Algarve and Madeira. During the upcoming summer tourist season, Turismo de Portugal expects to resume 700 weekly air routes with the United Kingdom that existed before the spread of Covid19. In the Algarve, Easyjet announced another 175 thousand…
The Confederation of Tourism of Portugal (CTP), in partnership with Publituris, is organising a webinar to be held on the 9th of February, starting at 10 am on 'O Estado do Turismo' (The State of Tourism). The event, which will be broadcast simultaneously on CTP's Facebook and Publituris website, aims to debate the current situation of Tourism, as well as to point out the challenges of achieving a lasting economic recovery."
At a meeting this morning, the 'Juntos pelo Povo' (JPP) stressed the need to guarantee measures capable of mitigating the destructive impact of the pandemic on the island's economy. They went on to say that "since the region cannot control or change the macro measures that are being followed, it can, however, consider a mitigation scheme aimed at recovering and maintaining possible tourist market dynamics. It is imperative that extraordinary measures are adopted to complement those in force at the airport."
The Regional Secretary for Tourism, Eduardo Jesus revealed today, that a week after the United Kingdom included Portugal in its 'safe travel corridors,' the number of British tourists to the island grew by 64%.
Portuguese resorts are considered to be the best in Europe among 26 residential tourism developments in 9 countries. According to 54 criteria in 10 categories, Portuguese holiday retreats ranked nº 1. There are many forms of tourism: recreation and leisure, healthcare, curative spa, cultural, educational, social. Dennis Swing Greeneinfo at…
Yesterday, while visiting Porto da Cruz, the President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque revealed that the Regional Government is negotiating a deal so that tourists are tested in their country of origin.