LISBON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Whispering "Hashish? Cocaine?", street sellers are offering unsuspecting tourists in Lisbon's centre "drugs" which police say are often bay leaves, flour or ground ...

The effort to create a sustainable tourism industry is taking many forms around the world, ranging from increased regulations surrounding the way visitors experience destinations to fines for those ...

Lisbon was one of the invisible cities imagined by Italo Calvino: A white and oceanic city surrounded by and emerald estuary, a place for thoughts and poetry, a city in the same time lazy, peaceful an ...

Lisbon’s traditional neighbourhood cafés — once central to daily life in the Portuguese capital — are disappearing. Dozens of long-standing pastelarias and coffee shops have shut down in recent months ...

Lisbon was voted Europe’s Best MICE Destination in 2023 for the first time at the 4th edition of the World MICE Awards, which took place last night in Berlin, Germany. The same event also saw the 31st ...

The UNWTO’s latest report does not have an exact figure for 2017, but last week Portugal’s economics minister gleefully reported that tourism revenue increased by 17 per cent, year-on-year, in 2017, ...