Twenty Canadian tour operators will be visiting the Algarve on 15th November to get to know the destination, especially with regard to senior golf and tourism, with a view to their promotion in Canada. The initiative is organised by Star Travel, the principal operator in western Canada and responsible for the greater part of the Canadian tourists who choose the low season to visit the Algarve, the average stay being 22 days.

Canada is a strategic market for the Algarve and, according to the Marketing Plan 2007/2009, the objective is to maintain its current quota of three per cent. Between January and August 2006, more than 130 thousand nights were registered with Cadadian tourists, an increase of 6.1 per cent in relation to the same period last year, corresponding to more than 60 per cent of the national total.

source: regiao sul