“Go and Do Likewise”
Tourism is the heartbeat of the Island's economy but it comes with some social challenges to the residents aswell.

Gabriel Escarrer Jaume Chief Excecutive of Melia Hotels International
Gabriel Escarrer Jaume Chief Excecutive of Melia Hotels International.

More passengers are expected to arrive this season to Mallorca
More passengers are expected to arrive this season to Mallorca.
Comment: Tourists and no graffiti
Palma would do well to look across the water at how Barcelona works and why.
Comment: A Plan for the future
“The great tourism plan draws on 2019, a record year for tourism...”
Comment: End in sight
“Perhaps the Balearic government should rethink some of its legislation...”
Greek letters and more tourism chaos
A Greek letter, disguising a virus variant, is hardly the type of gift wished for at Christmas.
Spanish tourism to recover 66% of 2019 levels in Q4, minister says
Foreign travel to Spain has been gathering steam in recent months.
Is it the end of booze tourism in Mallorca?
Back to basics
“We must always remember that it is beach and sun tourism which pays the rent...”

Es Colomer in Formentor
Es Colomer in Formentor.
Sustainability rains mainly in the plain
Montuiri has become the unofficial tourism capital of sustainable tourism.
Viewpoint: Destroying Mallorca
Sustainable tourism is the Balearic government’s mantra, I don’t think so.
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...

‘Young at Heart’ was a programme which kept hotels open all winter
‘Young at Heart’ was a programme which kept hotels open all winter

As I understand that Mallorca is going through its end of summer storm cycle
As I understand that Mallorca is going through its end of summer storm cycle
- German population of the Balearics has fallen by half
- Balearic government gets tough on illegal holiday lets, takes issue to Brussels
- I will never travel through Barcelona again... another carjacking
- Balearic holiday panic due to UK passport strike
- Palma restaurant owners accuse town hall of "persecution"
Comment
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"...what we don’t want is anti-tourism rhetoric which can be very harmful."
Jason Moore19/11/2022 09:47