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• EasyJet reaffirms Lisbon base for 2012

  Low-cost airline easyJet has reaffirmed its intention to establish a base at Lisbon’s Portela Airport in 2012 by signing a memorandum of understanding with the new Government after the original settling-in date was delayed followed April’s general elections.
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• Embraer factories in Évora to open in August

  Vice-president of Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said in Brussels the two plants they were building in Évora in southern Portugal “should open on schedule in August next year, just as planned”.

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• Portugal with one ‘Oscar’ at World Travel Awards

  Portugal managed only one award at what is known as ‘The Oscars of the Travel Industry’ at the 2011 awards ceremony held last Friday in Turkey.

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• Lisbon: European capital on the river and on the sea

  With some great beaches...but did you also know...?

  Opera - the city’s opera season starts this September and runs until next June – performances are in the beautiful Teatro Nacional de São Carlos with its Rococo interior – tic
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• Lisbon emerges as MICE destination

  Portugal National Tourist Office (PNTO) is marketing Lisbon as an emerging MICE destination following top 10 positions.

  The Portuguese capital has this year fallen 14 places according to Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living Survey. The latest city rankings shows Lisbon dropped from its position atnumber 72 in 2010 to 86 this year, which is explained by other cities across the globe becomin
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• TAP introduces new summer destinations

  Mali (Africa), Miami (USA) and Manchester (UK) are among national airline TAP’s new summer destinations to where flights will start operating in June.

  Regarding the Miami route, a TAP spokesperson t
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• Portugal celebrates 100 years of tourism

  Portugal celebrated in a five-day congress the 100th year since Portugal’s first official tourism department was established in 1911 by the Foreign Minister Bernardino Machado.

  Last Monday, 16 May, it was 100 years to the day sinc
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• World Cup in Rhythmic Gymnastics / Portimão

  The Portimão International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament is celebrating its 25th anniversary and it will beat the record number of participants, with a total of over 600 gymnasts.

  In parallel with this event, the 6th World Cup in the sport will be taking plac
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