Comments on: Is Portugal Doing a Good Job of Promoting Itself?

By: Karen Bryan

Karen Bryan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:47:11 +0000

Mike – Yes offline promotional activities are also important. However I diagree that Visit Portugal are doing its best to promote itself online. I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Portugal, a lot of credit for that has to go to Mary Goudie, a private individual.

KT – Well it wouldn’t have cost Visit Portugal anything to RT some of my photos. Mary Goudie didn’t spend any money arranging my accommodation and restaurant reviews, it was about getting in touch with contacts and you’d think that Visit Portugal would have a lot more contacts than a private individual.

By: KT

KT — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:51:14 +0000

From our experience, they are very helpful but with the severe austerity measures that we keep hearing about, they are probably a little hard-pressed drumming up promotional activity at the moment perhaps without extra resources. To their credit, we often approach them via email and telephone and find them very helpful.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:58:05 +0000

Hi Karen,

Portugal does its best to promote itself, only, new media has to grow for promotion.
Since a while, Portugal does it best to promote itself via social media. We have a lot of offline promotion things going on and till now, it helped us very much as tourism increased till the highest number over the year 2011.

We hope that your experience doesn’t effect your choice wether to come back or not :)

By: Karen Bryan

Karen Bryan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:16:59 +0000

Sonja – that’s just my experience, maybe you’ll have a positive response to your requests.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:28:44 +0000

Very interesting. I’m just a small-time blogger compared to you and I was planning on poking around for some press freebies when we’re in Portugal this summer! Looks like a no-go for me.