Turismo de Portugal is off to Israel "to explore business opportunities in the tourist market with great growth potential," according to the Ministry for the Economy.
The tourism trade mission to be led by the Secretary of State for Tourism, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, will take along nearly two dozen companies from the tourism industry.
British exports soared to a record high in 2013 of £304.3bn, up 1.3% from £300.5bn in 2012.
Figures were boosted by a healthy jump in December, driven by sales of oil, chemicals and aircraft.
Hospitality Association of the Algarve union management are to join with hotel workers in front of the Hotel Crown Plaza in Vilamoura on Monday, February 10th to demand payment of staff Christmas bonuses from 2013 and a 3% increase in wages as they have not had a pay rose for several years.
The hotel management has steadfastly refused to pay up claiming lack of cash and the workers are taking this step as a last resort in a pay dispute that has seen many top class hotels in the Algarve withold payment for work done despite good trading figures.
Three political parties, the PSD, PS and CDS have already agreed that a draft law covering Maritime Planning for Portugal is a good piece of work and offers a framework within which investment in aquaculture can take place in harmony with the needs of tourism.
A cross party working group has been set up by Socialist MEP Ana Paula Vitorino, who was in the Algarve this week to present the proposals for discussion.
Work on the Panama Canal, orchestrated by a Spanish-led consortium, has ground to a halt over a dispute about cost.
A new lock was being built to accommodate modern vast cargo ships transporting 12,000 containers.
The divorce rate in England and Wales went up in 2012, but only by 0.5% over 2011, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The rate, however, is nearly a fifth lower than it was just a decade before. This may be because fewer people actually married but cohabited instead.
Joao Miguel Gouveia, a survivor of the tragedy of Meco beach which killed six students, has been heard as a witness by the prosecution in court in Almada in what has become a homicide case.
Gouveia, a fellow student at Lusophone University, will be key in finding out what happened to cause the deaths of the young students in December 2013.
December saw a sharp fall in retail sales in the eurozone.
Sales over the Christmas period fell by 1% compared to the same time last year, and by 1.6% compared to November. This was the largest monthly drop in 2.5 years.
