CURRICULUM VITAE *ENG

My name is Paulo Henrique Fernandes Martins Coelho and i was born in Lisbon, on the 5 of August of 1966. At the age of 3 I went to Germany, where I lived and visited the German school until i was 11 .


When i returned to Portugal, i visited the Intermediate school of Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, in Leiria, where I continued, without any type of interruption, to have lessons of German.


Between 1985 and 1988, i took the degree of National Guide, in the School of Hotelaria and Turismo of the Algarve, getting a final classification of 16 points. In 1988 I started my official activity of Guide, in the Algarve, as free-lancer, working for the agency Algarve Tours, during 3 years and, as well as, for Paneuropa. In 1991 I started to work as main guide for the Miltours-Tui (called today of TUI-Portugal), agency for which I still work. During this time i also worked for other agencies,like Portimar (Algarve), E.V. Tours Full Services and Cordial Tours.


Nowadays i work for the following Travel Agencies: Tui, Dr.Tigges, Gebeco, Olimar, I.T.S., Jahn Reisen, Dertour, Neckermann and Imholz, among others. I initiated my activity making transfers and full-day excursions to Monchique, Sagres, Seville, Lisbon and Évora. I guided groups of travel-agents and incentives. I organized roundtrip programs for agencies and I guide mainly big roundtrips( 6 or more days) in Portugal and Galiza. I work in English and German .


After 20 years living in the Algarve, i settled down near to Lisbon.