Portugal was rated “Europe’s Leading Destination” and Lisbon “Europe’s Leading City Break Destination” for the third year in a row. Lisbon was also considered “Europe’s Leading Cruise Port” for the fourth time in a row. For the sixth time the Algarve was chosen as the “Leading Beach Destination”, an award it has already won in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, such as Madeira that was chosen as the “Europe’s Leading Island destination”, an award it has already won in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018. To these distinctions, we can add that of the Institute of Tourism of Portugal, deemed to be “Europe’s Leading Tourist Board". It should be noted that in 2019 Portugal was represented with more than 140 nominations, in 70 different categories.
These were the 27 awards attributed to Portugal:
Europe's Leading Tourist Board 2019
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Europe's Leading
Destination 2019
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Europe's Leading Beach
Destination 2019
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Europe's Leading Island
Destination 2019
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Europe's Leading City Break Destination 2019
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Europe's Leading Cruise
Port 2019
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Europe's Leading City Tourist Board 2019
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Europe's Leading Adventure Tourist Attraction 2019
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Europe's Leading Tourism Development Project 2019
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Europe's Responsible
Tourism Award 2019
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Europe's Leading Airline to South America 2019
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Europe's Leading Airline to Africa 2019
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Europe's Leading Inflight Magazine 2019
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Europe's Leading River Cruise Company 2019
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Europe's Leading Business Hotel 2019
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Europe's Leading MICE Hotel 2019
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Europe's Leading All-Inclusive Resort 2019
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Europe's Leading Beach Resort 2019
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Europe's Leading Design
Hotel 2019
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Europe's Leading
Boutique Hotel 2019
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Europe's Leading
Lifestyle Resort 2019
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Europe's Leading Luxury Hotel & Villas 2019
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Europe's Leading Resort Villas 2019
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Europe's Most Romantic
Resort 2019
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Europe's Leading Island
Resort 2019
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Europe's Leading Luxury Lifestyle Resort 2019
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Europe's Leading Boutique Hotel Operator 2019
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Besides the Europe awards, Portugal also won 15 awards in the country category/Portugal, here is the list:
Portugal's Leading Boutique Hotel 2019
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Portugal's Leading Lifestyle Hotel 2019
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Portugal's Leading
Business Hotel 2019
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Portugal's Leading
Conference Hotel 2019
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Portugal's Leading Car Rental Company 2019
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Portugal's Leading Family Resort 2019
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Portugal's Leading Design Hotel 2019
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Portugal's Leading Destination Management Company 2019
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Portugal's Leading Green Hotel 2019
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Portugal's Leading Hotel 2019
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Portugal's Leading Hotel Residences 2019
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Portugal's Leading Hotel Suite 2019
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Portugal's Leading Resort 2019
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Portugal's Leading
Serviced Apartments 2019
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Portugal's Leading Villa
Resort 2019
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Created in 1993, the World Travel Awards recognition the work done in the area of the tourist industry worldwide in order to stimulate competitiveness and quality in tourism. The nominees are selected on a worldwide scale by thousands of industry sector professionals who choose their favorites every year.
