Tourism in Porto, North seen returning to pre-pandemic levels in 2023

• 20 September, 21

The president of Tourism of Porto and North of Portugal (TPNP) and the Porto Tourism Association (ATP) continues to believe that the region tourists in 2023 return to the level of 11 million recorded in the year before the pandemic.

“From the end of this year, at a time when we have practically the entire population vaccinated, that is, with group immunity almost guaranteed, there is no reason not to start believing that we will start a return to normality,” the president of both the TPNP and ATP, Luís Pedro Martins, told Lusa, “With the autumn and winter months being quite strong months in 2019, I think that from here we are able to work to meet what is the great goal, which is to reach 2023 with 2019 numbers.”

According to Martins, tourists this summer returned in force to the big cities – unlike last year when people tended to opt for more thinly populated places inland – and so the region should be able to receive visitors at a level of “almost full normality” in the coming months.

“Porto and North, before the pandemic, was quite strong in the months of September, October and then in December, particularly with the Spanish market,” he noted. “This year, we believe, we will be able to receive them in almost full normality.”

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Cre:conews.pt