Do many French people go to Portugal on holiday? 10 points best answer?

there several different numbers , several top countries depending on data. data provided here 2011:

> total guests\visitors tourism regional areas in portugal (=nuts 2): 13.9 million 7.4 million foreigners, 6.5 million portugal
> total foreign overnights nuts 2: 1º- algarve (39%), 2º- lisbon region (28%), 3º - madeira (19%), 4º - north (8%), 5º - center (3%), 6º - azores (2%), 7º - alentejo (1%)

top-8 tourism revenues:
tourism revenues -- total foreign overnights
1- uk - 18% -- 24%
2 - france - 17,8% -- 7%
3 - spain - 13,8% -- 13%
4 - germany - 10% -- 13%
5- brazil - 4,7% -- xxxxxxx
6 - usa - 4,5% -- xxxxxxx
7- angola - 4,2% -- xxxxxxxx
8- netherlands - 4,1% -- 8%

top-5 total overnights:

* uk - 89% of 6.25 million total overnights in algarve , madeira. 1.24 total million visitors.
* spain - 68% of 3.44 million total overnights in algarve , lisbon area. 1.37 total million visitors.
* germany - 73% of 3.39 million total overnights in algarve , madeira. 740 thousand visitors.
* netherlands - 67% of 1.99 million total overnights in algarve. 388 thousand visitors.
* france - 59% of 1.93 million total overnights in lisbon area , madeira. 659 thousand visitors. since ask country: 18%-algarve 34%-lisbon area 25%-madeira 14%-north
7%-centre 2%-azores+alentejo

- top-5 year total number of (1 overnight @ least) visitors: 1º spain 2º uk 3º germany 4º france 5º brazil (455 thousand)
- top-5 months more foreign overnights: 1º - august (3.65 million) 2º - july (3.31 million) 3º september (3.07 million) 4º - june (2.64 million) 5º - may (2.56 million)

- top-5 countries summer months (thousands of visitors)

june july august september total
1º - spain 106 189 265 133 693
2º - uk 143 141 136 164 584
3º - france 70 68 108 76 322
4º - germany 78 65 70 91 304

notes on summer months revenues (thousands of euro): june british (137 against 88 of french , 78 of spanish); july french (188 against 175 of british , 130 of spanish). france leader again in august revenues far (376 against 182 of british , 175 of spanish). september british (183 against 125 of french , 106 of spanish). means in july , august french leading foreigners in tourism revenues of portugal, far. hurray them lol :d british won small margin in total year revenues though. hurray them lol :d

note on france: second month more visitors may, 94 thousand. top french overnights in thousands: 364 in august, 273 in may , 214 in july. @ least more 19 thousand french visit portugal every month. january weaker month (19 thousand).

type of facility (for strange reason data provided hotels , apartments aren't provided separately country, or @ least didn't find it...):
* camping parks leaders overnights - 1ºs france - 370 thousand 2º spain - 340 thousand 3º netherlands - 263 thousand
* hostels\summer camps - 1º spain - 41 thousand 2º - france 25 thousand 3º germany , brazil 16 thousand

there more 540 thousand\euro in revenues french visitors in 2011 in 2002, , number began increase rapidly since 2006.

like on holiday in summer, ever go hotels etc on coast?

bonus question:
top 4 nationalities go on holiday portugal in summer?

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