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.
Enjoy Mallorca: The Arta railway anniversary
Last week, they celebrated the opening of the line one hundred years ago.
Spotlight North: Moors and Christians are off
The Sant Pere fiestas that start next week are a shadow of their normal selves...
Spotlight North: Formentor traffic shambles - and the mayor’s barred
On Tuesday, the Formentor traffic restrictions started..
Spotlight North: The flags are flying
The Blue Flag for Playa de Muro beach was presented last weekend.
Spotlight North: A tourist information office - if only there were tourists
So, why is the new tourist information office reopening?
The Blog: Regional nationalism and the tourist tax
Why was a tourist tax introduced in the first place?
The week in tourism: When Boris met Pedro
The German tourism merely serves to emphasise what is missing - the British tourism.
The Blog: Dispensing with the ten per cent
Can the Balearic Islands afford to dispense with ten per cent of their tourists? What do you think?
Enjoy Majorca: When the useless walls of Palma came tumbling down
The city had to expand, and the only way it could do was by knocking the walls down.
The Blog: Why do people go on holiday?
Why does the Council of Majorca go to Germany now? What do you think?
Spotlight North: Record-time resurfacing of the Alcudia motorway road
The Council usefully explained that average daily traffic equates to 16,720 vehicles, ten per cent of which are “heavy”.
Spotlight North: One million for Puerto Pollensa
Formentor street, the stretch as far as Mendez Nuñez, is to be “pacified”.
Spotlight North: Puerto Pollensa motorhomes park - the Costas say NO
The Costas have now in effect said that there can’t be any use of the land.
The week in tourism: The Green List - is it just all politics?
Will the UK grant separate green list treatment for Mallorca?
The Blog: Convincing the Generalissimo - bikinis and tourist taxes
Why are the Mallorcan tourist boom and the bikini related?
The Blog: False impressions and false information
The island’s hoteliers are hoping that Americans and Asians will be coming to Mallorca’s aid. Is America about to rescue the Mallorcan summer?
The Blog: Do without the Brits? Yea, of course we can
Right now, Mallorca needs every last tourist of whatever nationality to return.
Enjoy Majorca: The unknown of Mallorca’s greatest military hero
In 1817, six years after his death received the title of ‘Grandeza de España’, this was the highest order of the Spanish nobility.
Comment
The Blog: Sleepless in Arenal and when tourism of excesses discriminates
What if these youthful hundreds were British and in Magalluf? Would the responses be different?
Andrew Ede 22/06/2021 11:38