Informações Algarve

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Regionale informações Algarve

Name of the region: ALGARVE
Capital: FARO
Categories of destination:
Algarve Region core is based on the Sun and Beach, Golf, Residential Tourism and Integrated Resorts. As emergent products: Nature Tourism, Meetings and Congresses, Nautical Tourism, Health and Wellness.
Population : 451 005 inhabitants (in 2011)
Area: 4 996 Km2
Provinces, departments: The Algarve region includes 16 municipalities

Touristic Remarks
Tourism slogan (or short definition): Algarve. Europe’s most famous secret.
Key messages of the strategic plan for tourism (5 maximum) :
Strengthening regional capacity with sustainability and competitiveness;
Involve stakeholders in the region;
Enhancing the overall quality of the destination (focusing on diversification of products, markets and sustainable management of activity and destination);
Strengthen the focus on organizing various cultural events at the destination and encouraging its promotion and dissemination.
Destinations of the region (Names and characteristics):
The coastal area is where most of the region's economic activity is concentrated. In terms of landscape, the Algarve coast is very diversified, varying between abrupt and jagged coastlines, extensive sandy beaches, inlets formed by lagoons, marshland areas and various formations of sand dunes.
The Algarve brand overlap sub territorial destinations barns. However, we can identify geomorphologic areas (with different landscapes): Litoral, Barroacal and Serra.
At costal area we have a few strong sub-brands working as flux destinations areas (Quinta do Lago, Vale do Lobo, Vila Moura), usually associate with luxury integrate resorts. Morphologically, the coastal area has a low altitude and mainly consists of plains, divided into fields and meadows;
The "Barrocal" area marks the transition between the coast and the mountains, consisting of limestone and schist. This area is also known as the "beira-serra" (literally the mountain edge) and is where most of the agricultural produce of the Algarve originates from;
The “Serra” (hills landscape) occupies 50% of the territory and is essentially formed from schist and some granitic rocks (in this latter case, in Monchique, where there is an outcrop of nepheline syenite). The main ranges of hills are the Serra de Espinhaço de Cão, Serra de Monchique (where Foia, the highest point in the Algarve is to be found, at an altitude of 900 metres) and the Serra do Caldeirão or the Serra do Mú.
Organism in charge of promotion (Contact, activities…) :
TURISMO DO ALGARVE
Avenida 5 de outubro, 18-20
8000-076 FARO - PORTUGAL
Phone: +351 289 800 400 / Fax: +351 289 800 489
E-mail: turismodoalgarve@turismodoalgarve.pt
Web (institutional): http://www.turismodoalgarve.pt
Web (promotional): http://www.visitalgarve.pt
Blogue: http://blog.turismodoalgarve.pt
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VisitAlgarve

Main attractions and touristic products of the region:
The beaches (scuba diving spots), golf courses / heritage tourism projects (churches, fortress of Sagres, ...), landscape (natural parks, fauna and flora and seascape that attracts more and more tourists for hiking, birdwatching, biking or boating) etc.

Cultural routes crossing the territory:
From traces of the Roman presence to evidence of the long legacy of Muslim times, from the Christian reconquest to the epic period of the Portuguese discoveries, you will find all kinds of reasons for rediscovering the signs of a quite distinctive historical past.
The evidence of the human settlement of the Algarve dates back to time immemorial. Examples of this presence are to be found in the Neolithic remains from many thousands of years ago and the more recent, but no less interesting, Roman archaeological sites, now open to visitors.
Visit Aljezur, Lagos, Silves, Faro, Tavira, Castro Marim and Alcoutim and discover the grandeur of Portuguese history, its people and their traditions, in each museum, church, fort and castle of the region.

Quality labels certifying: (more detail by request)
? 69 - Beaches recognized with the brand European Blue Flag;
? 4 - Marinas recognized with the brand European Blue Flag;
? 25 - Entities certificates in NP EN ISO 9001:2008;
? 14 - Entities certificates in NP EN ISO 14001:2004;
? 5 - Golf Courses certificates in NP EN ISO 9001:2008;
? 7 - Golf Courses certificates in NP EN ISO 14001:2004;
? 3 - Units hotel with "Green Key Certificate" awarded by European Blue Flag Association;
? 1 - "Green Globe" for a hotel in the region.

Number of enterprises on the tourism sector: 8576 firms (in 2009) only in the areas most directly related to tourism.
Annual number of tourists: 3 008 494 (guests in 2011) only in classified hotel establishments.

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