Feeling used - The hoteliers and the government fall out
Is the Balearic government's tourism decree an electoral ploy?
Comment: Learn from experience
“Remember when the holiday resorts were half empty?...”
Theme of the week:, How Turkey knocked the stuffing out of the Balearics
Mallorca is on course for a summer to remember...well fingers crossed.
The British leading the boom in the holidays’ recovery
TravelgateX reports that the British are romping away with the Easter holiday stakes in the Balearics.
Bookings to the Balearic Islands up 13% in one week
The majority of bookings through TravelgateX are for 2 to 5 days of stay, with 46.8% of the total.
Occupancy in tourist apartments reaches 30% in December, double that of a 2020
Tourist apartments received 5,515 travellers during December (2,689 nationals and 2,825 foreigners).
Occupancy in tourist apartments in the Balearic falls to 29% in November
This volume of travellers and overnight stays represents 3.8 times more than the 2020 figures.
Tourists in Ibiza
The Balearics the tourism leader for the first ten months of the year.
Funding for “very internationalised sun and beach resorts”
The Balearic tourism minister spoke about the government getting back to its “transformation agenda” for tourism.
A new tourism law - what more is there to debate?
What do you think? What changes does the Balearic tourism sector need?
“I would say that the traffic light system has been a disaster from the start...”
“I would say that the traffic light system has been a disaster from the start...”
The Blog: A tourism elite - is that what we really want?
We have of course advanced a long way from the first package holidays of the 1950s...
No government got handling the pandemic right but perhaps the Balearics did OK.
No government got handling the pandemic right but perhaps the Balearics did OK.
The Blog: There are types of tourist, and there are types
What to do with the type of tourism that doesn't benefit the image of the island?? What do you think?
Spotlight North: What actually is the agreement with Bellevue?
There are complaints from this area that it feels "neglected".
Viewpoint: Price is going to be king
Vaccines may be the key, but so too will be holiday prices this year.
Foreign tourism to Spain slumps 93.6% in February amid COVID curbs
Germans, who have started going back to Mallorca, took second spot.
Sticking to their guns
The Balearic government should stick to their guns when they make a decision”
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Major security alert at Mallorca airport, surprise landing of flights from Morocco and Namibia
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
Comment
Comment: Mallorca suicide mission
I wish the Balearics would make up its mind, does it want foreigners or not?
Humphrey Carter03/03/2022 10:08