Eco Life Experience
Eco Life Experience is a sustainable eco-tourism and education platform based in Sintra, Portugal, offering workshops, reconnection activiti…
Sustainable Tourism
Stays that give back: eco-resorts near Tavira, off-grid retreats in the Monchique hills, and revived schist villages like Cerdeira. Travel that leaves the place better.
Projects in this focus
Portugal Farm Experience
Portugal Farm Experience is a tour platform connecting travelers with real farms across Portugal for hands-on activities like fruit picking,…
Ericeira Tree Garden
Ericeira Tree Garden is a family-run agro-tourism project in Santo Isidoro offering rooms and villas immersed in a green, tranquil setting c…
Biovilla Sustentabilidade
Biovilla Sustentabilidade is a sustainable development cooperative located on the Herdade de Pinhal Basto in Palmela, Portugal, combining na…
Sustainable tourism in Portugal
Tourism is a large part of the Portuguese economy and a large part of the pressure on its coast and water. The places listed here are trying to be the other kind: small, off-season as well as on, staffed locally, and built or restored rather than newly cleared.
They range from eco-resorts near Tavira to off-grid retreats in the Monchique hills to Cerdeira, a schist village in the Serra da Lousã brought back from abandonment as a place for craft and residency.
Staying somewhere that also farms, teaches or restores land is the simplest version of travelling well here. See also the eco-tourism and experiential learning, retreat centres and low-impact travel focuses. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.