Over the last week, I have read about passenger numbers at Palma airport rocketing to sky-high levels, hotel bed occupancy levels going through the roof, and tourism on the island basking in a proverbial record summer.
Which, on the face of it, is great news. As we can all look forward gleefully to multi-million investment in the airport's infrastructure, outdated hotels, and the tourism marketing budget for 2016 scaling new heights with all this new-found wealth burning a hole in their respective pockets.
And that's not counting the extra lump of tax hoovered up by the Hacienda to plough back into making the island even more of a hand-rubbing money tourist magnet.
The cliche demands there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Maybe more so with an election around the next corner.
Taking my tongue out of my cheek, I hope I am proved wrong and next year and beyond witness unparalleled investment - guaranteeing the future success of Majorca.
But at the moment, I think the jury is well and truly out. For some time. And I am old enough big enough and ugly enough to prefer what my own eyes and ears tell me.
Richard Chew
Calvia and Yorkshire
Dear Sir,
Few Brits to whom I have spoken seem to realize that on 9 September our hard-working monarch Queen Elizabeth will have overtaken Queen Victoria’s record reign. It is an historic occasion.
Lets party.
Jill Carter
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