A port of extremes: saturated by hotels, released by the metro

122 new hotels in the city, investment of almost 250 million euros. On the other hand, Porto “important zones” will be released.

The importance of turismo no Porto it is increasingly visible – and in the near future it will not slow, at least in Hospitality.

There is 122 processes of new Tourism projects (87 of them are hotels) ongoing. In 63 of them, the works have already begun. The data are from the Porto City Council Statistical Bulletin, cited by.

Will become a total of 35 thousand beds (12,000 more than now), in a global investment of 248.2 million euros In these new buildings.

It is a “exaggeration”, Critica Diogo Petiz, representative of the Housing Movement Today: “In a simple walk to the supermarket we will find three hotels“.

“This will reduce the right of residents to the city ”, Continued in: “Porto’s local housing strategy indicated that 7,000 people would be in a situation of economic lack and we are now talking about the possibility of 6,000 new rooms, which also reveals a kind of political impossibility of solving the housing problem, but for tourism we have this brutal ability to continue to build.”

“Porto is already very saturated and will be even morewill overload not only the low, but also public services, and push us out of the city, ”adds Diogo Petiz.

Freedom

On the other hand, and in another context, the port will be less saturated from works and with greater freedom of circulation.

A Port announced that, from here until June, will end the conditioning in several Central Points: Rotunda da Boavista, Galicia Square, Santo António Hospital, Liberdade Square and Almeida Garrett Square.

O Metrobus In Boavista starts in June, the Pink line (São Bento-Casa da Música) is ready in 2025 and the Ruby line (House of Song of Ovid) will be inaugurated in 2026-probably only part of the route.

In relation to compensation To traders affected by the work, Tiago Braga, president of the Board of Directors of Metro do Porto, told what has been paid so far 861,304 euros, only on the Rosa line. “We would like to help more, we would like to make up more. It is the possible. ”