LISBON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Whispering "Hashish? Cocaine?", street sellers are offering unsuspecting tourists in Lisbon's centre "drugs" which police say are often bay leaves, flour or ground ...

Lisbon has been named as Europe’s Best MICE Destination in 2025 at the 6th edition of the World MICE Awards, announced in ...

The effort to create a sustainable tourism industry is taking many forms around the world, ranging from increased regulations surrounding the way visitors experience destinations to fines for those ...

Lisbon was voted Europe’s Best MICE Destination in 2023 for the first time at the 4th edition of the World MICE Awards in Berlin, Germany. The same event also saw the 31st European edition of the ...

The local government in Lisbon, Portugal, has approved a plan that will double the tax tourists pay for overnight stays and cruise visits without a clear plan as to how the increased tax revenue would ...

Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas said the Portuguese capital will have a record tourism year in 2023 and still has room for growth as he balances the city’s appeal to visitors with a housing crunch for ...

Ever since tram number 24 stopped running up one of Lisbon’s famous hills two decades ago, residents have been demanding its return. So when the renamed Tram Tour began service in May on a shortened ...

The UNWTO’s latest report does not have an exact figure for 2017, but last week Portugal’s economics minister gleefully reported that tourism revenue increased by 17 per cent, year-on-year, in 2017, ...

A three-year-old boy and his mother are among the survivors of the Gloria funicular disaster which killed 16 people in Lisbon. The iconic yellow carriage, which carries 40 people up and down a steep ...