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 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...
Viewpoint: Masks on beaches
"But there didn’t seem to be much evidence of mask-wearing. In fact, there wasn’t any"
Enjoying Mallorca: Fiestas to fairs and invented traditions
The summer fiestas start to fade, and as they do, they merge with and morph into another form of tradition - the fair.
The Blog: Mallorca’s drunken 39% of tourists
Why is Mallorca more of a paradise for drunken tourists than the rest of the Balearics?
Spotlight North: Can Picafort - extending a season that already exists
Will this translate into an extension of the season?
Spotlight North: Alcudia now has almost 100 million in the bank
The surplus, already the largest of any town hall in Mallorca.
Spotlight North: Cala San Vicente and the lady from the Niu
The parties at the Hotel Niu were of such renown that even guests from the Hotel Formentor would attend.
The Blog: Winter tourism - was it ever that big?
In the ‘70s a winter season did start to emerge, and by 1981 it was overwhelmingly British.
The Blog: A birthday and the end of summer
The fiestas for Mary’s birthday are essentially Mallorcan village affairs.
Spotlight North: Twenty years a Natural Monument - the Ufanes springs
Campanet is home to Mallorca’s most unusual natural phenomenon - the Fonts Ufanes.
Spotlight North: The old power station - let’s try again, shall we
Alcudia town hall is keen enough for this project to go ahead to have presented it to other town halls in the area.
Spotlight North: EU funds for northern Mallorca tourism diversification
What might these projects be?
Spotlight North: Tourism of excesses? Can Picafort’s sunloungers
It would seem that the situation had been brewing and that it finally came to a head last Sunday.
The Blog: Mais oui! C’est Majorque
It seems that Mallorca is being rediscovered by the French.
The Blog: Powers - what Balearic politicians dream of
Why does the regional government want powers for the beaches?
Have phone, will blog a beach
Bloggers were insisting that their blogs were not to blame for one particular nice beach being so overrun
Spotlight North: The most beautiful (large) villages in Mallorca
Alcudia and Pollensa both officially became part of the network of “Spain’s most beautiful villages”
Spotlight North: Certifications for beaches - Alcudia accessibility
Blue Flags in Mallorca have not made a positive contribution in “geo-environmental terms”.
- 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
Comment
The Blog: Whatever happened to Mallorca’s Club Med?
These two redevelopments tell you everything about where Mallorca’s tourism is heading.
Andrew Ede 16/09/2021 12:12