Princess Cruises (GSA James Rawes) has launched special prices for three 12-day cruises in the new Star Princess. To be known: from Barcelona to Venice on the 9th June and 3rd July; and from Venice to Barcelona on 21st June. Good opportunities for the fly-cruises Portuguese market, by the good connection between Portugal and Barcelona and Venice.

Swiss, in code-share with Denim Air, will initiate on the 12th June the routes Lisbon, Venice and Florence, through Zurich. Swiss continues to promote special prices in the web specials mode, through the site www.yourcountry.swiss.com/PT/tg-to-so-intro-portugal.

A wide collection of artistic and creative actions internationally recognised – such as music, multimedia creativity workshops, design and project culture, literature, cinema, environmental animation and education actions, conferences and temporary exhibitions – will be part of the first edition of an original Show, the Ecodrome Festival. It will be around one hundred guest authors, intellectuals and artists in the festival.

From the 7th to the 16th May, the traditional Algarve cooking will be on the spotlight during the 9th Gastronomy Festival of Portimão. The 9th edition of the Gastronomy Festival counts this year with the record participation of 22 restaurants representing three different zones of Algarve.

Until the end of the month, it will take place the seventh edition of Reguengos de Monsaraz Gastronomy Festival, which main aim is to promote the local restaurants, as well as the regional products, with highlights to the sausages and the wine.

On the next 22nd and 25th April, Madeira will be the stage for the Flower Festival. So, starting next Thursday, the 22nd, the concert by the Male Choir of Mevagissey, will take place in the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias. Starting that day until Sunday, there will also be available, in the island, the Flower Tapestries – 4 Central Plates.

TAP Air Portugal has launched a special program dedicated to “Mother’s Day”, through which it offers an air ticket to all mothers who travel with a child and an adult, in European flights.

By the occasion of the celebration of the 3rd Year of the Regular Route Lisbon – Funchal by Air Luxor, this air company and ARTEH® - Hotels and Resorts organised a Press Trip to Madeira the past 6th and 7th April.

On the next 11th May, the Forte de S. Julião da Barra , in Oeiras, will be the home to the multi-cultural event “Dalí – Uma Paleta de Sabores” of Arts, Gastronomy and Solidarity, scheduled for the celebration of the birth of the Spanish artist.

Air France is going to launch, from the 29th March to the 6th June, the Euro 2004 Contest, with very interesting prizes: tickets for the Euro 2004.