{"id":12237,"date":"2025-07-21T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12237\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:02:09","slug":"tourism-brings-in-e2-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12237\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism brings in \u20ac2.6 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bportugal.pt\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BdP<\/a>, shows that, compared to May 2024, tourism revenue\u2014which is measured by spending by foreign tourists in Portugal\u2014grew by 149.84 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the previous month of April, which included Easter celebrations, the increase in tourism revenue was even more significant, reaching 15.5%, representing an increase of 348.57 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to tourism revenue, tourism imports \u2013 which are measured by Portuguese tourists&#8217; spending abroad \u2013 also increased by 4.8%, reaching \u20ac629.33 million, representing a \u20ac29 million increase compared to tourism imports in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to April, when tourism imports totalled \u20ac633.73 million, there was a decrease in Portuguese travel abroad, with a contraction of \u20ac4.4 million or 0.7%. This indicates that the Portuguese travelled more abroad in April, likely due to the Easter holidays.<\/p>\n<p>BdP data also shows that, in May, the Travel and Tourism balance was \u20ac1,972.29 million, representing a 6.5% increase compared to May 2024, with this indicator increasing by \u20ac120.84 million. <\/p>\n<p>However, compared to April, the Travel and Tourism balance grew by 21.8%, representing an increase of \u20ac352.97 million compared to the \u20ac1,619.32 million recorded in April. <\/p>\n<p>The accumulated total through May is already close to \u20ac10 million. <\/p>\n<p>Data from the BdP also indicates that, through May, tourism revenue has already reached \u20ac9,843.92 million, representing an increase of 5.6%, or \u20ac524.43 million, compared to the \u20ac9,319.49 million recorded through May 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Regarding tourism imports, which totaled \u20ac2,271.99 million through May, there was a 4.4% increase, with this indicator increasing \u20ac95.47 million compared to the \u20ac2,176.52 million. <\/p>\n<p>The balance reached \u20ac7,554.44 million, an increase of 5.6%, or \u20ac402.47 million, compared to the \u20ac7,151.97 million recorded between January and May 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data from the BdP, shows that, compared to May 2024, tourism revenue\u2014which is measured by spending by foreign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}