News to the Minute – Emigrante Invests Nearly Three Million Dollars in Douro Tourism Development

" Investors who come from our diaspora, who invest among us and bring modernity once again, modernize our business and our economy and we are always able to drag that can spread

When from a visit to tourism development on the south bank of the Douro, Quinta da Pacheca, a day when he visited another private investment in the diaspora, at Alfandega da Fe

"Because it's a who has not hesitated to invest in Portugal, in the region to which he belongs and invested in the sense of acquiring this business and turning it into it. As it was evident, modernizes the farm, brings new values ​​to the economic enterprise that the farm is and allows to preserve this huge landscape and the cultural richness that is the vineyard of the Douro, "concreti Quinta da Pacheca received near of three million euros over the past seven years and, in the first phase of the project, 1.5 million have been invested and for the moment 4,300 million works are in progress, "

Maria do Céu Gonçalves, partner of Paulo Pereira, explained that in this package "innovation and expansion of the project" they used a program of Turismo de Portugal, "for the first time not only because capital is limited but also because it is a right like all other investors "and in that sense they will receive a grant of 3.3 million euros.

Quinta da Pacheca thus sees its expanded hotel capacity in 50 rooms, a "spa", swimming pool, wine shop where there are tastings and tastings, regional cuisine and a "professionalization" of the existing kitchen as well as the finalization of the 10 & # 39; bungalows – which are unique no "

Álvaro Lopes also emphasized the accessibility because" it was not possible to move the hotel to people with physical mobility and once the completed works, they can circulate everywhere without the slightest "

In an intimate ceremony, Paulo Pereira thanked the government's entourage for his business and stressed" the importance of this simple visit, even for the Team, because it values ​​the work that has been done. "

]" It's not just subsidies, people can not be used to the installation, they have to show work and all the rigor of these bodies makes money that people will really invest and we invest, developing to give a different image, better, improve the Douro and also Portugal, which is what we want, "he defended.

Paulo Pereira took advantage of the presence of the Secretary of State of Com Portuguese units challenge other emigrants from the diaspora to invest in the country, "because Portugal has completely changed in recent years."

"I wanted to thank the chamber [Lamego] because we We have always had a very quick response, Portugal and what I say to the Portuguese who live there and we have to motivate these people to come here, we have great potential in the Portuguese community and to say to these people people that it has completed t changed, everything is more agile.

"In the diaspora, in our emigration, we have very important opportunities for our economy, both from the point of view of the Portuguese and Portuguese economy."

A challenge that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has even confirmed. markets so that our businesses can export either areas where our economy can go for investment, capital, business ideas, and "