According to the final list of nominees released by the World Travel Awards, widely considered as the Oscars of tourism, the Algarve is joined by the usual suspects of Cannes, Corfu, Maiorca, Marbella, Sardinia and Oludeniz in Turkey.


Voting will take place online until he 26th of July and is open to the public via worldtravelawards.com/vote. The Algarve had previously won the award in 2012 and 2013.