London. Turismo de Portugal promotes “original and alternative” destination for holidays with “sun and beach” – Observer
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the British look more to Portugal as an “original and alternative” destination for holidays with “sun and beach”, said this Saturday the president of Turismo de Portugal, Luís Araújo, at the FTWeekend Festival, in London. .
It was with the aim of promoting this image that the entity partnered with the Financial Times at the FTWeekend Festival, an event where writers, scientists, politicians, writers, artists and journalists lead lectures and debates on topics such as climate, environment or culture. .
“After these different things, with a great connection, with the sustainability planet, with the big people, served two components to the sustainability pandemic, with the big people, with the importance of the sustainability planet, with people, with components important to the planet of sustainability”, Agência Lusa.
The event, aimed at a “high segment” audience, explained as “an opportunity to, leaving the tourism or travel bubble, the Portugal brand (…) to the arts, finance, technology”.
Held since 2916 in North London’s Hampstead Heath park, the FTWeekend Festival attracts over 3,000 people annually, with a regular ticket price of £119 (138 euros).
Among the speakers and ministers led by the health team Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former Health cook Lulu Ly Hancock, the interior team cook at Lulu Ly Hancock.
The panel specifically programmed for Portugal included, namely, a tasting of Portuguese wines for the critics of Jancis Robinson and Julia Mendes, where the ‘chef’ Nuno Mendes, who opened the Lisbon restaurant in London this year, cooked cod seafood rice, and a conversation between Luís Araújo and Portuguese professional surfer Nic Von Rupp about the waves of Nazaré.
“We want to show a different Portugal, which has been preparing itself during these two years, and which is more ready to receive tourists looking for alternative destinations. The Douro, Porto and the North were among the regions that grew in recent years, which grew the most with the Centro region, Alentejo and the Azores”, stressed the president of Turismo de Portugal.