According to data on residents' tourist demand, published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), in the second quarter of this year, residents in Portugal made 5.7 million trips, corresponding to an increase of 6.1%.

Travel within the national territory was decisive for the increase, with an increase of 5.5% to 4.8 million, which represented 85.6% of trips.

Travel to foreign countries grew by 9.8%, totalling 812.2 thousand trips (14.4% of the total) and with a progressive approach to 2019 levels, but still remaining 1.9% below these values in the quarter in which analysis (-4.6% in the first quarter of this year).

"Leisure, recreation or vacation" trips were the main motivation for traveling between April and June and increased by 9.1% year-on-year, representing 48.4% of total resident trips, reaching 2.7 million.

The reason "visiting family or friends" originated 2.1 million trips (37.8% of the total), registering a growth of 3.2% (+1.3% compared to the second quarter of 2019).

"Hotels and similar" accounted for 25.3% of overnight stays resulting from tourist trips in the second quarter, with "free private accommodation" being the main accommodation option (60.4% of overnight stays).