The RTA - Região de Turismo do Algarve (Algarve Tourist Board) presented on Saturday 3rd June, in the eastern Algarve, their preview for the summer of 2006. Following a meeting with journalists in Alcoutim, where the local tourism post was re-inaugurated, the Summer Festival, brought together the Algarvian touristic sector in the Bubibar, in Tavira.

The International Day of the Oceans, which is commemorated on 8th June, has been chosen for the re-opening of the CCVA - Centro de Ciência Viva do Algarve (Centre of Living Science of the Algarve), with the inauguration of the exhibition "The Sea".
This space, the first interactive centre for the scientific and technological divulgence of the network Ciência Viva (Living Science),

The University of the Algarve (Ualg) will in the next scholastic year widen its formative offer with the inclusion of post-secondary, non-superior CET - Cursos de Especialização Tecnológica (Courses of Specialised Technology), which aim to confer professional qualifications at level 4.
These courses, in addition to general and scientific training, have a strong technological training and in the work context (work experience).

The water desalination project for supplying four hotels with about a thousand rooms near the Praia de Alvor will necessitate an investment of about a million euros.
Pedro Lopes, director of the Pestana group in the Algarve, the company that is preparing to implement the desalination project, says that the desalination unit will have a maximum output of fresh water of 800 cubic metres per day.

A resolution of the Council of Ministers approved the contents of a concession contract for the development, in a public service regime, of the port destined for recreational boating, designated as the Marina de Albufeira. The referred concession will be celebrated soon between the Portuguese State, represented by the Minister for Public Works, Transports and Communications, and the company ALBUMARINA.

Worlds Largest Sand Sculpture Event, FIESA 2006, open it’s doors to public this saturday in Algarve, with this years theme Mythologies. The 4th International Sand Sculptures Festival (FIESA 2006) will start up from Saturday, May 20, at 18:00h, exhibiting thirty five thousand tons of sand, sculpted in scenes and symbols of the universal mythology.
The festival locates in Pear, in Algarve, and it exhibits an integrated group of sculptures in sand of great dimensions, in an area about 15.000 m2.