The data comes from the latest global report “Travel Trends 2024” from the Mastercard Economics Institute, which presents an analysis of the sector in 74 markets, based on exclusive, aggregated and anonymized transaction data, including from Mastercard SpendingPulse™[2].
In the top 5 for the average number of stays in March 2024 are Greece (6.8), Spain (6), Croatia (5.8) and the United Kingdom (5.6).
Portugal is also one of the countries where air traffic grew the most, compared to 2019 (8%), occupying third place in the European ranking, ahead of countries like Spain (6.6%), and 8th place in the global ranking, ahead of countries like France (26th), Italy (29th) or Germany (35th).
The study also analyzed the main destination search trends for the period between June and August this year.
In the case of Portugal, Lisbon is preferred by Spanish (158%), French (73%) and British (63%). Faro is also preferred by Spaniards (53%) and Porto is the main destination for Swiss and British people.
Among the islands, Madeira is most popular in Germany (53%) and Switzerland (38%) and the Azores in Canada (42%).