Andrew Ede
Background in business publishing. Started an online blog about Mallorca in 2005, which went daily in 2007, covering culture, environment, history, politics, tourism and more. Became a regular contributor to the Bulletin in 2010 before joining the staff a few years later.
The Week in Tourism
The Easter oasis and the post-Easter dip
Easter had genuinely come to herald the start of the season.
The Week in Tourism
When governments aren’t to blame
SGAE gets involved with all manner of places where, as examples, there is the transmission of music, television or films.
The Blog
And the rural tourism winner will be...?
The idea for the competition is to give visibility to those municipalities which have made a commitment to the development of rural tourism.
The Blog
Mallorca has too many people for the Spanish government
Grand mediaeval cities such as Ávila in Castile and León, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1985, are not immune to the crisis of depopulation.
Comment: Policing Mallorca’s summer
The hoteliers are calling for the summer police operation to start earlier than July.
The Blog
Bread, charity and pines - the pilgrimage parties of a Mallorcan Easter
The day of charity was something of a moveable feast, and feast - in an eating rather than a religious sense - was to later surpass the meagre offering of bread.
The regatta channel for Alcudia’s big lake
It will make the lake a global reference point for sport, tourism and nature.
Pollensa Wine Fair making a swift return
Mark your calendars at the next fair will be on May 7 and 8.
No sunloungers for Can Picafort ... for now
It wouldn’t be the start of the season without there being a row about the non-provision of beach services.
Ensuring vehicles don’t get onto Pollensa’s Calvari steps
Recently a 4x4 vehicle was on the steps and not by accident.
Comment: The great tourism windfall
Upwards of two million euros for promoting a “gastronomic tourist triangle” involving Palma.
The week in the north - a hive of activity
After all the months of reduced or non-existent fiesta-style activities, you won’t be able to move for them over the coming week.
Comment: Greeks bearing gifts
For the Greeks, it looks unashamedly like a tourism promotion.
The Pollensa guns of Easter and August
For Pollensa’s Moors and Christians, some thirty shotguns are fired in all.
Northern Spotlight
Pollensa police in urgent talks with the mayor
There was a protest by some 150 town hall staff at the council meeting, demanding that bonus payments withheld in 2021 be paid.
Northern Spotlight
Exhibition for the painter who founded the Pollensa 'School'
La Caixa Foundation acquired the Anglada Camarasa collection in 1988.
Northern Spotlight
Can Picafort’s swimming pool - back to its natural state
Santa Margalida town hall plans to create a square with banked terraces surrounding it in the space where the pool once was.
Who spends the most in Majorca?
The Balearics, according to Balearic government numbers, attracted 149,627 foreign tourists in February.
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
- Mallorca needs to remember price is king
The Week in Tourism
Riding on the Marrakech Express - Morocco stakes its tourism competitor claim
Tunisia, which subsequently suffered the Sousse terrorist attack in 2015 that led to a two-year dip in tourism, is often bracketed with Egypt and Turkey.
Andrew Ede 22/04/2022 16:25