Portugal has also received some good press recently in Ireland and the UK regarding the value for money it offers with some experts making it out to be the second cheapest country in the Euro Zone.

Local businesses had expressed worry in the last few months but this turn of events has certainly put a smile back on their faces. The rate of hotel occupancy in April was forty nine point one percent. Airline numbers were showing a remarkable twenty percent drop for the first three months of the year however the drop was just one point six percent in April.

The Algarve has long been reliant on the money that tourism brings in however recent losses have led many locals to look at other ways of making money so as not to have all their eggs in one basket.

The Algarve made the top ten holiday destinations in a recent survey by the Post Office Travel Service.