“An attractive destination.” Tourism in the Algarve highlights new air connections

a On Friday, the Association Turismo do Algarve (ATA) considered that the new airlines confirm that the Algarve is an “increasingly attractive” tourist destination, highlighting the positive prospects for 2024.

“The Algarve continues to enjoy the opening of new routes and air connections to the region, starting next year. The latest announcements were made this week by Finnair, which in October 2024 will return to the Algarve Airport. Faro with two weekly direct flights from Helsinki (Finland), and from By easyJet, which opens in June 2024 the Southampton (UK) – Faro line, with one weekly flight, and also by Volotea, which will introduce a new line next summer. From Brest (France) to the Algarve,” it can be read in a statement that News by the minute It was arriving.

He explains that in addition to these flights, “there are also new points of contact with North America that the region has been able to secure, by strengthening the offer of Azores flights between the Azores (Ponta Delgada) and the Algarve (Faro) – the Azorean capital has several air connections to different points On the East Coast of the United States of America – and the announcement of the first direct flight between the North American continent and the Algarve, operated by United Airlines, which will connect New York / Newark with Faro from May 2024.

In light of this scenario, future prospects are positive. “The Algarve region is increasingly becoming a premium tourist destination, recognized in all its sectors and products, and the proof of this is that our region is increasingly connected to the world,” says André Gomes, president of Turismo do Algarve, in the same note. .

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