Tourism in OECD Countries 2008
Trends and Policies
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Portugal
According to the Portuguese Tourism Satellite Account (PTSA), tourism contributed 4.6% to GDP in 2004, and 4.6% of gross value added. Tourism characteristic activities represented around 88.8 % of that value. Tourism’s share of domestic production in that year was 4.2%, while internal tourism consumption represented 9.3% of GDP or around 50% of this aggregate. The PTSA estimates that employment in tourism-characteristic industries represented around 7.8% of total employment in 2004 (or 8% if full-time equivalent jobs are counted). The activities contributing most to employment in the sector in terms of FTE are restaurants (with 54.5% of total FTE in the TSA characteristic activities), hotels and similar establishments (15.3%) and road passenger transport (9.8%).
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