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
Hoping for Easter
Much has obviously happened since early April, and it unfortunately hasn’t been very encouraging.
The Blog
Majorca also has museums
Museums are clearly an element of this cultural tourism, a very big element in that there are indeed museums everywhere.
Reflections in September
Keeping it in the family
Disadvantages or not, the family businesses have remained and continue to flourish.
Viewpoint
The Czechs to the rescue
66,491 visited the Balearic Islands in 2018 and almost 56,000 of them came to Palma.
The Blog
Aznar and the hostages to the past
Aznar is arguably the most active of the ex-prime ministers.
Viewpoint
Difference doesn't matter
Minorca remains on Germany's travel blacklist at least until the middle of this month.
The Blog
Premium Majorca: What lies behind
There is far more wealth broadly spread as a consequence of tourism, but will a transformational model predicated on luxury or premium bring about an improved balance to society?
Enjoying Majorca
Nuredduna: Fiction or legend?
A most beautiful representation of Nuredduna is Remigia Caubet González’s statue near the Palacio de Congresos in Palma.
Viewpoint
Being Proactive
Other regions are providing voucher incentives for their domestic markets, but the Balearics haven't come up with any notable initiatives.
Viewpoint
Rebel regions
Some regional governments opposed to tighter coronavirus restrictions for municipalities with more than 100,000 people.
Tourism
Taking the glamour out of tourism
Call it ERTE or furlough, we have become familiar with arcane detail of employment law.
Politics
Catalonia and the ribbons of rupture
On Monday, the Supreme Court upheld the eighteen-month disqualification from public office of Quim Torra, the president of Catalonia.
Heritage
Feixina monument and the politicisation of heritage
It isn't a case of preservation for preservation's sake.
Viewpoint
An impartial judiciary
The European Commission's latest report into the Rule of Law in EU member contains eleven pages on Spain.
Fairs and fiestas
How to create a tradition
During the next few weeks we will bring you a series of articles regarding fiestas and traditions that haved occured during September and how they came to be in different villages in Majorca.
The Blog
The fires in the soul of Majorca
The story of Pep was one that emerged during and after the great fire in the Tramuntana seven summers ago.
Viewpoint
The Digital Illusion
Calvia town hall's emergency plan for the municipality's retailers is to apparently include a means by which businesses will be able to sell online.
The Blog
The World Tourism Day that wasn’t
The day has come and gone with a whimper, the low sound of unhappiness drowned out by the agonised screams of crisis.
- 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
Viewpoint
A rental is not a home
Calvia is now following the lead set by Muro in establishing a rubbish tax rate for holiday rentals.
Andrew Ede 08/10/2020 10:38