Algarve Resident newspaper

**Pedro Silva** Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:54 pm

**bb1** Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:07 pm

Many thanks, Pedro, lots to read there.

I see that the road tolls business is still causing problems:

http://www.algarveresident.com/0-46367/algarve/tourists-advised-to-steer-away-from-a22

**Pedro Silva** Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:53 pm

you welcome bb1, yes, you´re right.

**bb1** Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:37 pm

http://expresso.sapo.pt/turistas-fazem-fila-a-pe-na-autoestrada-a22=f717513

Tourists line up, walk, take the motorway A22

Tourists foreigners who want to cross Portugal , have come out of cars to pay tolls . Sector entrepreneurs promise to "make noise", starting with lead protests to the President .

The line this morning in the Via do Infante, Algarve

The imagm is reproduced here in the morning on Friday. The problems in the collection of tolls on highways Portuguese result in queues, on foot, in place of automobiles. The promoters and entrepreneurs in the tourism sector are angry and promise to listen to their protests, found the Express.

"It's so ridiculous that third world and told no one believes." This is how the president of the Hospitality Association of Portugal begins by responding to questions from the Express.

"I even accept that put tolls on highways, it is not in question, says Michael Júdice, but" this intelligent system that has no toll attendant, even if it is an automatic machine, sucks and does not work. Are people in the rain, cold, in endless lines to pay a single machine. "

The businessman emphasizes the importance and "strong impact" on tourism outreach in Portugal, namely in the Algarve, considering that it is "giving shots at the feet of an absurd way" with this issue of tolls.

"This is not customer oriented. Our client is the tourist. We have to have more tourists and satisfy them. The first thing we offer them when they put the foot on the border is to treat them badly. You make them turn back, unwilling to come, "he laments.

"They should encourage the arrival of tourists, especially those who come by car and they are many. Spanish is our biggest market," explains also the chairman of Tears Group.

To Júdice Miguel, "the Algarve has to somehow rise up" and reveals to express that you want to take the popular uprising inicada Internet to another level: the President of the Republic "Monday, but even this weekend, week, "as well as other members of the Government.

"Let's start making noise - guaranteed - for there is a real impact and this is no joke: economists say the solution is to export more, sometimes tourists are an export. Each time a Spaniard come here to sleep in a hotel, go to a restaurant, buy a souvenir , paid a taxi, we are able to exchange, to inject money. "

"This can only be people who want to kill tourism"

The photo was not taken until now, although it started to speak Spanish in these queues, especially, began to appear today at lunchtime on Facebook. One of the persons responsible for its dissemination, Ruben Obadia - Publituris director of a newspaper linked to tourism - the Express said that, according to statements taken by themselves, the lines would have "more than one hundred people," but the rain forced many to "give turn around and go ", since there are no shelters.

The journalist noted that it was "a recurrent situation." "Being the Easter prime time for the Spaniards to come to the Algarve, this will only aggravate the situation in terms of tourism and hospitality" in the region, stresses Ruben Obadia, who says he has spoken with some people in the restaurant in Lagos, the Algarve, which stated that "it is a desert and looks like a ghost town."

"When comparing the figures of the statistics of the inputs of Easter this year with last year, will say it is the fault of the crisis. This is just stupid, an imbecility, a country's abnormal. This can only be people who want to kill tourism. And even after they put this alarvidade that this system is unique in Europe. There is no place where you pay the toll in this way, "he added.

In the Via do Infante motorway linking the Algarve from end to end, there is only one point of payment of tolls at the entrance of Portugal who comes from Spain.

The tolls on the Via do Infante, as well as the A23 motorway (Beira Interior), A24 (Inner North) and A25 (Beiras Litoral and Alta), can only be made by electronic means. Tourists who want to move these lines of communication have to rent a temporary device, upon payment of a deposit or pay 20 euros for a "pass" for three days.

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What a shambles - I am not surprised the locals are so angry.

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