τίτλος : Portugal gives lease its historical buildings to promote tourism
Σύνδεσμος : Portugal gives lease its historical buildings to promote tourism
Portugal gives lease its historical buildings to promote tourism
To boost the travel and tourism industry and to attract more leisure tourists, Portugal is giving the lease its empty Christian monasteries.
The star-shaped walls of the hilltop fortress town of Elvas dominate the plains of Portugal’s southern Alentejo region near the border with Spain.
But despite being declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 2012, Elvas receives few visitors aside from the occasional Spanish day-tripper.
To try to change this, Portugal’s second largest hotel group, Vila Gale, is spending around five million euros ($6.0 million) to convert this former convent into a luxury hotel.
There are dozens of builders are working on the 17th century whitewashed building, last used as a military court, to transform it into an 80-room, four-star hotel that is set to open next year.
Rebelo de Almeida, the President of Vila Gale said in a statement that they are convinced that with a quality hotel, and the tourists will stay in Elvas.
Vila Gale was awarded a 40-year lease to operate the state-owned building.
Now, tourism has become a key driver of Portugal’s economy since 2014 when the country exited a three-year 78-billion-euro international bailout that imposed harsh austerity measures on its citizens.
Now, to attract visitors to places not currently on their radar, and help ensure a constant year-round flow of tourists, Portugal’s socialist government is leasing abandoned monasteries, forts and other historic sites to private groups to be turned into hotels and other leisure centres to allure more tourists and generate employment in this sector.
The building is one of 33 abandoned historical sites the government is offering to lease for up to 50 years under a programme dubbed “Revive”.
Portugal welcomed a record 18.2 million foreign tourists in 2016 and, while official figures for last year have not yet been published, government and tourism sector officials believe the figure was even higher. The country has seen a surge in international visitors partly due to security concerns in other popular sunshine holiday destinations, such as Egypt and Turkey. Portuguese hotels welcomed 20.6 million guests in 2017, an 8.9 percent rise over the previous year, helping the tourism sector to create some 53,000 new jobs.
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