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Saturday, the 25th Abril 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

A reflection by Dina Ad\u00e3o<\/h6>\n

Those who know me well know that I love the Algarve: most of all, I love what this region is capable of offering those who live here and those who will choose it for their future home. And yet there\u2019s no denying that this region also reveals a series of bad examples and bad practices, perpetrated over the years and now ingrained as bad old habits that have proved to be profitable.<\/p>\n

In 2003, when the publishing company I was working for decided to begin publication of the Guias Caleidosc\u00f3pio \u2013 Passear e Conhecer<\/em>, their aim was to produce a tourist guide to each of the Algarve\u2019s 16 municipalities. Was the plan too ambitious? Why not?<\/p>\n

After the Tavira guide, which came out around the time of the Euro2004 football championship, Caleidosc\u00f3pio began publication of the Albufeira guide. At the first public launch of this guide, at the Library of what is considered the Algarve\u2019s most tourist-centred municipality, a reader confided in me a comment that I have kept to myself ever since. \u201cYou know, this isn\u2019t the Albufeira that I know, and this book runs the risk of being a complete fraud\u201d. Well, the truth is that it was the Albufeira that I had chosen to know \u2013 and to recommend. As with everything in life, we choose where we want to go. Our conversation continued along these lines and I bade farewell to the lady, promising her that, if she looked for the places recommended in the book, they would be there for her to enjoy.<\/p>\n

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And this memory comes to mind now because I recently read an interview in the weekly newspaper Sol with the businessman Andr\u00e9 Jordan, the founder of the Algarve\u2019s Quinta do Lago complex, in which he considered that Portugal couldn\u2019t continue to promote mass tourism. Why? \u201c(\u2026) Because it isn\u2019t sustainable, it isn\u2019t profitable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One of the solutions for the region, he added, would involve \u201ctransforming tourists into permanent tourists. People who would make Portugal their permanent base, or at least their refuge.\u201d \u201cAfter all,\u201d he said, \u201cwe want to bring an end to global warming, but we\u2019re receiving more and more planes, building more and more airports. It just isn\u2019t affordable. (\u2026) We\u2019d be better off having a luxury hotel industry and high-quality tourists who pay more and can also pay better wages to the people working here.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a time when the Algarve hotel industry is already recording losses of over 300 million euros, and when companies receive almost 80% of their revenue exclusively from tourism, we know that it won\u2019t be during the summer of 2020 that the economy will begin to recover.<\/p>\n

I remember Issue No. 28 of ECO123, published last winter, whose cover displayed an incredible picture by Filipe da Palma, questioning the results of 50 years of Tourism in the Algarve. And now, where do we go from here?<\/p>\n

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We can\u2019t go back to doing the same as before, which has already shown itself to be the wrong path. The results are clearly visible. I hope this BAUHAUS can help us to rise again from the ashes and create a sustainable form of tourism, and, what\u2019s more, one that, as Andr\u00e9 Jordan said, will be able to pay a decent wage to those working in this industry. I hope that this pandemic crisis will serve as a wake-up call for our collective awareness, showing us that we need to consume less, that we need to create resources on a small scale, to feed \u2013 or create \u2013 local networks and communities, to go back. Going back doesn\u2019t always mean regressing, and if there\u2019s one thing that this virus has demonstrated to all of us, it is that we can, in fact, stop. If it is possible to stop, then let\u2019s do so and rethink everything all over again.<\/p>\n

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Dina Ad\u00e3o (45)<\/h3>\n\t\t\t studied journalism and librarian, mother of a 12-year-old daughter, works at the Col\u00e9gio Internacional de Vilamoura and freelance for ECO123<\/p>\n

Photos: Dina Ad\u00e3o\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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