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Portugal Golf – Grand Young Talent Golf Tournament, by Wyndham Grand Algarve

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Quinta do Lago North Golf Course. Quinta do Lago North will be one of the hosts of the golf tournament

The golf tournament will take place at Quinta do Lago

From April 14-16, the Wyndham Grand Algarve will organize the prestigious The Grand Young Talent Golf Tournament on the world-famous golf courses of Quinta do Lago.

This exclusive competition is a great way to allow young golf fans to get experience and exposure to the sport while also having a great time and meeting new friends.

A native from the Algarve and also a DP World Tour professional, the Portuguese golfer Ricardo Santos will be the event ambassador and will lead a golf clinic for all attendees.

“It’s great to be a part of this tournament and to help junior golf”, said Ricardo Santos.

Depending on the participant’s age, the Grand Young Talent Golf Tournament may use a variety of formats, such as stroke play for the U18 and U14 divisions or Stableford for the U10 division.

The rules of the game will dictate how the general and category awards are distributed, and both the gross and net score methods will be used.

According to reports, junior golf in Portugal has been on the rise in recent years, and several groups and initiatives have been established to foster its growth on a national and regional scale.

“Golf is a great sport for children for many reasons, it helps develop focus and resilience, it contributes to the development of social skills and it teaches you about integrity and honesty”, says Ricardo Santos.

Ricardo Santos aspires to encourage and support young golfers at The Grand Young Talent Golf Tournament and beyond through his ambassadorship and golf clinic.

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Portugal Golf Holidays – Easyjet reopens base in Faro until October

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Faro Airport. Easyjet reopens Faro base

Easyjet reopens Faro base for the summer

EasyJet stated that it will resume summer operations from its seasonal base at Gago Coutinho International Airport in Faro.

“EasyJet, the main European airline, reopened its base in Faro, inaugurated in the summer of 2021, from which it will operate 21 routes this summer”, said the air carrier in a statement.

It will have nine A320 planes in the Algarve until the end of October, with a total capacity of 2.1 million seats, up 15% from 2022, according to the same source.

The carrier detailed the locations that it serves from Faro, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Milan, Basel, Geneva, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Paris.

“We can’t wait to get back in the air over the Algarve and start the new season. The reopening of the Faro base in 2021 was one of EasyJet Portugal’s largest investments to date”, said the general director José Lopes.

At the end of February, the Portuguese airport manager ANA announced that Gago Coutinho international airport would have 18 new routes and 6 new destinations in the summer, operating a total of 81 connections to 71 cities.

This increase in routes has already given the Algarve “the greatest connectivity ever”, according to João Fernandes, president of the Algarve Tourism Region (RTA), who said it was “the result of joint work between Turismo do Algarve, ANA Aeroportos and Turismo de Portugal”.

After that, the RTA president said, “we have a very substantial increase in available seats during the summer, which is 250,000 seats more than in 2019, which was the year with the highest offer ever”.

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Portugal Golf Holidays – Algarve tourism sector expects a busy Easter

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Lagos, Algarve. Algarve tourism sector expects a busy Easter

The Algarve tourism sector has good forecasts for this Easter

Hotels in the Algarve have reported great demand for the Easter break, and this trend is expected to continue into the summer.

João Fernandes, head of the Algarve Tourism Board (RTA), predicted that the region will have accommodation occupancy rates of at least 90% around Easter, and he added that April as a whole should see occupancy rates of 65% to 70%.

Hélder Martins, president of the Association of Hotels and Tourist Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA), sees an occupancy per room of around 70% during Easter, an increase of 3% in hotel occupancy compared to the same time in 2022.

João Fernandes expects 2023 to be a year of records in the sector due to the region’s marketing, which has resulted in successful records of passengers disembarking at Faro airport.

The president of AHETA noted that Easter “lives a lot from the Spanish market”, but the UK market is preponderant in the Algarve, along with the French and Dutch, as well as new markets like North America, which is growing despite the lack of direct flights.

AHETA’s president Hélder Martins said these visitors have arrived even in the low season after entering through Lisbon and Seville, but it’s vital to solidify this market to increase it.

According to João Fernandes, 30% of Algarve bookings are pre-paid, and there is a greater balance between direct visitor bookings and travel agency bookings.

“Everything points to another record year, but what tourism never tyres of saying is that we are optimistic, but careful because obviously there is great instability at an international level and some expectations may be frustrated due to external factors”, concluded João Fernandes.

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