Founded in 1935 as National Foundation for Joy at Work (FNAT), the INATEL Foundation, presently under the tutelage of the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity, affirms itself as a Foundation that offers social services, in the areas of social and senior tourism, and social and senior spas. It also provides and organizes leisure time, culture and popular sports, with profound concern of humanism and quality.
INATEL Foundation is present all over Continental Portugal and its Autonomous Regions with a network of 22 agencies. INATEL Foundation work covers an associative mass that includes around 250 thousand individual associates and 3 500 collective associates; a network of social hotels with 16 hotel unities, 3 parks for Camping , 2 Houses for Rural Tourism and two spas - which represents a global offer of 4 200 beds - and a permanent structure of social and senior tourism and also an organization for the holidays of the beneficiaries and their families; a Theatre - Teatro da Trindade; two sport Stadiums - Estádio 1º de Maio, in Lisbon, and Parque de Ramalde, in Porto, besides support structures to popular culture and to amateur sport which, specifically, promotes the technical and financial assistance of the following movements: associative, cultural, sport, ethnographic, folkloric or recreational, which have a business or local base, in the Continent and Autonomous Regions.