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
Devolution and the state of alarm
The role of the Council and the need for the Council is an old theme.
The Blog
Student demonstration time
In 1954, Franco approved a university discipline regulation that is only now going to be repealed.
Enjoying Majorca
The invasion of Majorca that never was
Some fishermen, it was then reported, had supposedly seen an American fleet. The island basically went into lockdown. No one, other than the military, was allowed to go to sea.
The Blog
A strange time to start an airline
Álvaro Middelmann says things have to be taken step by step but that there is a great opportunity.
The Week That Was
Unequal treatment: Andalusia versus the Balearics
Juan had some words to say about the pilot tourism plan for the Balearics. It had been "doomed to failure".
Majorca
New normal tourists: the week in Majorca
There were "quality" foreign and national tourists; people were behaving badly on the streets; and it was Prime Minister Sánchez's final appearance - or was it?
Viewpoint
The tax route
The governor of the Bank of Spain has argued that IVA (VAT) offers the greatest "margin for improvement" for generating tax revenue.
Enjoying Majorca
The fair that was the making of Majorca’s nautical tourism
Not only was that fair of 1971 decisive in developing nautical tourism, it also laid the foundations for what has become a flourishing nautical storage, repair and maintenance industry.
Viewpoint
Person of the week, boos and cheers
Find out who is this week's Bulletin person of the week and who received the three cheers and a big boo!
Majorca
Bridges and dynamite: the week in Majorca
Were there air bridges with the UK?; opening the borders had "dynamited" the test tourist plan, while an administrative cock-up also threatened the plan; and nightlife appeared to be facing extinction.
Northern Spotlight
Fiestas, but not as we know them
Find out how the summer fiestas in the north will be this coming week!
The Week in Tourism
Tourism rescue: the future can wait
The repeated demands for there to be a minister with sole dedication to tourism sitting around the cabinet table have always fallen on deaf ears.
The Blog
Beyond the myth: Magalluf
"A case study in which sensationalist reporting and value judgements mould the reality into a mythicised vision."
The Blog
Why Majorca was always going to be first
Under normal circumstances, Germany outstrips the UK in terms of numbers of tourists coming to the Balearics by around one million.
The Blog
The dilemma of statues
In Barcelona, there was a protest demanding the removal of the monument to Columbus, with genocide and slavery having been been reasons.
- 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
Majorca’s tourism markets
“Majorca has made a good living from the traditional markets”
Andrew Ede 01/07/2020 01:18