As an Advantage Travel Agent,
personalised by owner managed office with
all qualified and experienced staff.
We operate the latest computerised
reservations and have keen airfares,
holidays, hotels, self-drive cars and cruises.
We offer prompt confirmations and tickets.
Our services include groups and incentive
travel.
Portugal
Portugal has a rich seafaring past, superb
beach resorts, wistful towns, and a landscape wreathed in
olive groves, vineyards and wheat fields. Littered with Unesco
World Heritage sites and graced by one of Europe's most relaxed
and attractive capitals, it also remains refreshingly affordable.
Savouring life slowly is a Portugeuse passion, and much of
the best is humble - traditional folk festivals; simple, honest
food drowning in olive oil; music that pulls at the heart
strings, recalling past love and glories; and markets overflowing
with fish, fruit and flowers.
Four decades of dictatorship sidelined the country from modern
progress and Europe's power centres, but like its neighbour,
Spain, it has spent much of the last 20 years trying to move
in from the periphery, forging new ties with the rest of Europe,
restructuring its economy, and struggling to maintain what
is best in its national culture despite the sudden onslaught
of international influences.
Full country name: Portugal
Area: 92,389 sq km
Population: 10.3 million
Capital City: Lisbon (pop 535,740)
People: 99% Portuguese, 1% African
Languge: Portuguese
Religion: 97% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant, 1% other
Government: Parliamentary democracy
Head of State: President Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio
Head of Government: Prime Minister José Manuel Durão
Barroso
GDP: US$105.8 billion
GDP per capita: US$10,600
Annual Growth: 3.3%
Inflation: 4%
Major Industries: Textiles, footwear, wood products, metalworking,
oil refining, chemicals, fish canning, wine, tourism and agriculture
Major Trading Partners: EU (esp. Spain, Germany, France, Italy,
the Netherlands & the UK), US
Member of EU: yes
Windsor & Neate Travel, ABTA/IATA
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airline tickets or an ATOL receipt confirming which ATOL travel firm you are booked with. ATOL is a Travel Protection scheme operated
by the Civil Aviation Authority that extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the UK.
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