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Photography:<\/strong> Jorge Santos<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A study conducted last year concluded during the summer months only 37.8% of Ericeira’s surfers are Portuguese, with a large majority of 62.2% coming from foreign countries.<\/p>\n However, over the 12 months of the year, Portuguese are the vast majority, reaching 89.7%.<\/p>\n This was one of the conclusions of the study conducted by 2ii – Inform\u00e1tica & Informa\u00e7\u00e3o Lda. (which had conducted another study on Tourism in Mafra and Ericeira) throughout the year 2017 in the various beaches of Ericeira, with interviews with surfers. This study, aimed at proving in-depth knowledge on the profile of surfers in Portugal, on the contribution of surfing to the local economy, to the country and to the image of Portugal, with a sample of 475 surfers exclusively located on the beaches of Ericeira.<\/p>\n Among other relevant data, we highlight the following:<\/p>\n \u2022 93.70% of these surfers practice throughout the year, whenever sea conditions make it possible Study focuses on the profile of surfers in the World Surfing Reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waves"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u2022 As to Ericeira’s expectations, they were achieved for a large majority (73.50%)
\n\u2022 As for Ericeira’s strongest points, the waves and the sea came first, with 54.90% – interestingly, only 22.90% mentioned Nature, although Ericeira is the only European World Surf Reserve.
\n\u2022 The expenses are mainly concentrated on Accommodation, Travel, Shopping and Surfing Classes (on average, \u20ac 460.40, \u20ac 286.15, \u20ac 250.50 and \u20ac 202.50 respectively).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"