PHTO - Tourism in Portugal The new concept to discover Portugal
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PHTO - Tourism in Portugal
As a result of a project to develop a new model of business in the ďŹ eld of travel and tourism. Built and consolidated through the development of a group of partnerships that made the creation and subsequent starting of business possible. The articulated management of partnerships was the base for the building process of the company and became one of our main competences. The distribution of travel and tourism is by nature, an activity based on the management of partnerships between suppliers and customers. Our recent history is sustained by the incorporation of competences in regarding: partnership management; tourism awareness; knowledge about the most eective information technologies; belonging to a global network; management of human resources; eective and automatic operational model and the integration of the service advantages of counselling and monitoring supported by a digital platform.
The Beginning of the story
Managing Time and connecting the dots on the whole Planet is in fact our activity, as travel agents, of all, who are dedicated to Tourism.
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The rest of the story We plan to build it together!
Counselling and monitoring through consulting specialists • Distinction through a unique touristic product and a network containing experienced and credible national partners • Wide offer of a product that counts Portuguese culture and global Lusophony as our distinctive elements • Customer service through all ways of contact 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, supported by a team using a digital platform • Innovation in merging the products and increasing the offered added value to the customer
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Monitoring • Counselling • Transparency • Assistance and service • online and offline We offer all our customers assistance and service before, during and after the journey. We are present online and offline with the available team 7 days a week 24 hours per day, to advise, research and make reservations for:
Flights • Accommodation • Itineraries • Meetings • Events All our services include: Flights: travel insurance; seat booking; check-in and boarding pass delivery 24 hours before the flight; flight changes alert, frequent flyer management; Accommodation: reservations, Hotel Preferred Guest Card management; Itineraries: regional theme packs from 3 to 9 days in all country including Azores and Madeira Islands; Meetings/Events/Congresses: overall support before, during and after the event.
Customer Care
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PHTO is the abbreviation of Portugal Heritage Tourism Office; the company’s name clearly resumes our strategic purpose. PHTO Travel Consulting brings new approach to tourism as a global activity. We combine the expertise of traditional service with the technology performance. Being the first digital travel agency, PHTO Travel Consulting positions itself as an example of excellency and uniqueness. We wish to present Portugal as a country that for over 900 years has given new worlds to the world with magnificent landscapes and a unique heritage. Portugal also offers a rich, extended knowledge and taste in gastronomy, culture and tradition. With our services you will experience unique and unforgettable emotions.
Tourism in Portugal
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• Fátima, religious places, sanctuaries, monasteries • Wine and gastronomy brotherhoods • Itineraries • Tradition, culture • Popular local festivals • Congresses, incentives • Olive oil, olives, olive trees • Bulls • Fish, sea, coast • Cork
Our Proposal
“Many ways of travelling, many ways to discover”
• Almonds, blooming almond trees • Gastronomy, secular wisdom, recipes • History, heritage/monuments • Marble • Wine, wineries, oenology, harvests, cellars • Fado, music, tradition • Nature PHTO - Travel Consulting
PHTO - Tourism in Portugal
Nowadays, the importance of wine and gastronomy in the national touristic offer is unquestionable. For the recognition and growth of the demand for this product, the technical and technological evolution of Portuguese vitiviniculture has been demonstrated by the numerous prizes won lately by Portuguese wines in national and international contests. Recognizing gastronomy as a national heritage contributed decisively for the recognition of cuisine and its traditional products as important factors for the development of the country and its regions. As a result, we now testify the development of a contemporary and author’s cuisine. That is why the investment in eno-gastronomy is largely justified as a part of our offer in Portugal.
Eno-gastronomic Tourism
In order to pursue these goals in a consistent and authentic way, we have established partnerships with AMPV (PMWA – Portuguese Municipalities Wine Association) and FPCG (PFGF – Portuguese Federation of Gastronomy Fellows) and we plan to establish new agreements with other entities.
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PMWA – Portuguese Municipalities Wine Association
Founded in 2008, PMWA´s main objective is the protection of the historical-cultural, patrimonial, economical and social identity of the Portuguese Municipalities and areas connected with the production of quality wines. PMWA promotes the regions and municipalities whose wine production is important for the economy and the historical identity of the regions. They combine and unite together the agents of other sectors promoting the regions. Currently it has 80 associates and presides to the RECEVIN – European Network of Wine Cities.
PFGF - Portuguese Federation of Gastronomy Fellows
Partnerships
In June 2001, with the increasing number of Associations for the Defence of Portuguese Gastronomy, and with the need of acting together for the same goal, the PFGB was created. Nowadays, PFGB has more than 70 fellows that represent regions, dishes and products from all over Portugal. Assuming a position of defending Portuguese gastronomy as a strategic product of our economy, specially in the tourism sector, PFGB and their associates insist on direct and indirect intervention in the defence of products, producers and traditional recipes.
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Porto and North of Portugal
Centre
Lisbon and
Tagus river Valley Madeira
South
One country... Many ways to discover it
Azores
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Bread, cheese, wine and company • The ice, Eden and salt • Beyond Sado • Ribatejo • Bulls and cork • Marble triangle • Trip to history and to the interior • Beira: Parsnip (Cherovia), pastry in sauce and olive oil • bread, cheese and nettles • Minho’s “verdes” • The green, the sea and Porto • Terras do Douro and Barroso • In the centre of tastes I and II • The other Algarve I and II • Madeira island • Azores, São Miguel Island • Azores, Terceira Island • Lisbon • Sintra, Cascais and Oeiras
3 Days
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The North of Tradition • Central Coast • Beyond Tejo • Interior Centre • Alentejo and Algarve
9 Days
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We actively organize Congresses, Meetings and Events.
Congresses and Events Providing the services, the customer can always decide our level of involvement. Our services include:
Concept and graphic design • Meeting Rooms • Flight • Accommodation • Meals • Guided Tours • Technical support • All PHTO-Travel Consulting Services PHTO - Travel Consulting
PHTO -Tourism in Portugal
PHTO Travel Consulting are the first Portuguese travel agents to have consulting as a working model. We rely on the most recent technological processes at a reduced cost, in order to guarantee the best competitiveness without compromising the best levels of profitability. As a company that acts in the tourism sector with increased responsibilities – since Tourism, the Peace Industry is made by and for human beings, our mission will be oriented to the fulfilling of those fundamental values, together with our impatience for clearing the path for the challenges the future brings. All this in order to better serve our partners. In a world that has modernized mainly in capitalism doctrines and its cyclical crisis and revolutions, the returning to the Essence of Humanism and the importance of the Human Being as a social being is the present challenge for the sustainability of the companies – therefore, to serve will always be our essence – but serving Well, Well!
Mission
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PHTO - Tourism in Portugal
We wish to be the best Portuguese travelling and tourism organization, by serving and learning daily from our partners, as we fully believe that there is room for us and that this is the right moment for the birth of this project. We believe that in this tiled society we live in, we will only survive the information revolution by modernizing systematically. Our company has as ďŹ rst challenge to build itself as a true learning organization where our Partners, Customers or Suppliers will always have a “reserved seatâ€?. This company comprises since the foundation, the knowledge and competences of a group of tourism professionals and Travel agents, that form the basis to accomplish the Strategy we designed for this project.
Vision
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APRIL 2013
Contact us PHTO Travel Consulting, Viagens e Turismo SA� NIF 509 623 700 • RNAVT 2882 • IATA 64-2 geral@phtotravelconsulting.pt�• www.phtotravelconsulting.pt T: (+351) 210 488 000 • F : (+351) 210 488 099 Rua Padre Américo, 18F sala 6 • 1600-548 LISBOA • Portugal GPS: Lat. 38°45'43.41"N Lon. 9°10'46.66"W
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