Food sales by large multiple retailers presented in March a year-on-year monthly change rate of +15.40%, at constant prices, and +17.01% at current prices.

In March 2024, in the Azores, 587.6 tons of fish were unloaded at auction, with a total value of 3.0 million euros.

Azorean tourist accommodation sector (hotels and similar establishments, lodging tourism and local accommodation and tourism in rural areas) registered 154.8 thousand overnight stays in February 2024.

The Private Consumption Indicator for the Azores recorded a year-on-year positive variation of 1,9% in February.

In February 2024, the Azorean Economic Activity Indicator stood at 1,5%.

The average inflation rate in the Azores got down to 3.40%, in the Country it was 2.92%. The year-on-year monthly change rate was 1.31% in Azores and the National was 2.29%. The monthly rate was 1.61% in Azores and 1.96% in the Country.

In March 2024, 146,079 passengers landed at airports in the Azores, with a positive variation of 11.6% in relation to the same month of the previous year. The homologous variation rate of change in the number of passengers landed in the first quart...

According to IT-Açores, Hotel, Local Accommodation and Rural Tourism overnight stays were 154.5 thousand in February.

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In the Azores, bank card purchases using POS reached a total value of 133,1 million euros in February, a year-on-year increase of 12.1%. Withdrawals at ATM reached an amount of 43.5 million euros, a year-on-year decrease of 2.2%.