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
Another eighteen million down the drain
Playa de Palma, the marketing dream of the sixties, has once more been exposed as an institutional nightmare.
Viewpoint
Penalising town halls
It is generous of the government to pay the interest, but what interest will there be if bank deposits are raided?
Enjoying Majorca
Print in Majorca: unionism, Calafat and Guasp
Gabriel Guasp in 1579 established a printing firm which remained in existence until 1958.
The Blog
The tourism jobs merry-go-round
AETIB followed ATB, the former Balearic Tourism Agency, which used to be responsible for promotion.
Viewpoint
Statements of the obvious
The IVA raised by the regions goes into the Spanish government's regional financing distribution system.
Viewpoint
The only certainty is uncertainty
This crystal-ball gazing isn’t as straightforward as in the past.
Northern Spotlight
Overrun by motor homes
This all said, romantic and simple though it might be to park a motor home by a beach, it isn’t as simple as it seems if these vehicles cause a genuine problem.
The Blog
The convenience of funding governments
Antoni Noguera of Més, a former Palma mayor, has described the Ley Montoro as a “fraud” perpetrated against town halls...
Viewpoint
A market without visitors?
As things currently stand, there won’t be any stands for the Balearics.
The Week in Tourism
The slowly disappearing Globalia
Iberia has the upper hand in these negotiations, but it has also of course been badly affected by the crisis.
The Blog
Youth, tourism monoculture and Covid
Some graffiti in Santanyi is merely a reminder that the rebels are still there and are spending their summer in idle contemplation of idleness - now and in the future.
Viewpoint
Living in a cave
Now that Catalonia has opted for the cave route, might the Balearic government follow suit?
The Blog
The fifty-nine go on holiday
Given this, here’s a question? Do they still receive their living allowance for the inconvenience of having to be based in Majorca?
Viewpoint
The good guys of travel
The UK quarantine for the Balearics and the Canaries was the killer blow.
Viewpoint
Common sense and consistency
Everything points to the quarantine remaining for Spain, but with some safe health corridors with the Canaries and the Balearics.
Enjoying Majorca
Before and after: Miles Davis and jazz in Majorca
Miles Davis played Palma in 1986. The "before" of jazz in Majorca had the regime to contend with.
The Blog
The crisis and pointless comparisons
The figures will tell all. How long will it be before they are like those quoted above?
The Blog
Explaining Palma’s Silicon Valley
Truyol now speaks of a specific abandonment of the tourism monoculture for Nou Llevant and La Soledat, and what she is referring to is tourist accommodation - hotels.
Viewpoint
The ports authority affair
For the Balearic government, life would be much simpler if Gual were to choose to fall on his sword.
Viewpoint
Cosmetic exercises
Magalluf is part of the island's heritage, and there are toponymic studies to highlight this.
Andrew Ede 13/08/2020 01:19