The operations development manager for Spain and Portugal, Oriol Maresh, said at a press conference in Lisbon that the new, independent hotels Best Western was negotiating with were in and around Lisbon and Porto.

In Portugal, the hotels that are part of the Best Western chain are the Hotel Inca in Porto and the Hotel Dom Bernardo in Faro, but as the company said, this number is going to expand over the coming years.

“The increase in tourist numbers to the two Iberian countries”, justifies the expansion at this time”, the international director of services to hotel members, Neville Graham, told reporters adding that Best Western is in 100 counties with 4,100 hotels.