This year, the National Tourism Award (PNT) awarded, for the first time, a Personality Award posthumously. The winner was the founder of the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Paulo Pinheiro.
The award given this Wednesday, at the ceremony of the sixth edition of the PNT, at Forte da Crismina, was recognition for the work developed by Paulo Pinheiro over the 16 years of the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve and for being responsible for the return of the MotoGP World Championship and Formula 1 Portugal, in 2020.
The nomination and distinction, posthumously, by the jury of the National Tourism Award, recognizes “the legacy of Paulo Pinheiro and the contribution he made to the development of tourism in the Algarve region”, says the .
In September of this year, the Government, through Pedro Machado, Secretary of State for Tourism, had already awarded Paulo Pinheiro the Medal of Tourist Merit, Silver Degree.
The National Tourism Award (PNT) – which has the high sponsorship of the Ministry of Economy and Digital Transition, the institutional support of Turismo de Portugal, and the technical support of Deloitte as a ‘knowledge partner’ – aims to “promote, encourage and distinguish entities, practices and projects that stand out in the tourism sector”.
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