The British leading the boom in the holidays’ recovery
TravelgateX reports that the British are romping away with the Easter holiday stakes in the Balearics.
Bookings to the Balearic Islands up 13% in one week
The majority of bookings through TravelgateX are for 2 to 5 days of stay, with 46.8% of the total.
Occupancy in tourist apartments reaches 30% in December, double that of a 2020
Tourist apartments received 5,515 travellers during December (2,689 nationals and 2,825 foreigners).
Occupancy in tourist apartments in the Balearic falls to 29% in November
This volume of travellers and overnight stays represents 3.8 times more than the 2020 figures.
Tourists in Ibiza
The Balearics the tourism leader for the first ten months of the year.
Funding for “very internationalised sun and beach resorts”
The Balearic tourism minister spoke about the government getting back to its “transformation agenda” for tourism.
A new tourism law - what more is there to debate?
What do you think? What changes does the Balearic tourism sector need?
“I would say that the traffic light system has been a disaster from the start...”
“I would say that the traffic light system has been a disaster from the start...”
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...
No government got handling the pandemic right but perhaps the Balearics did OK.
No government got handling the pandemic right but perhaps the Balearics did OK.
The Blog: There are types of tourist, and there are types
What to do with the type of tourism that doesn't benefit the image of the island?? What do you think?
Spotlight North: What actually is the agreement with Bellevue?
There are complaints from this area that it feels "neglected".
Viewpoint: Price is going to be king
Vaccines may be the key, but so too will be holiday prices this year.
Foreign tourism to Spain slumps 93.6% in February amid COVID curbs
Germans, who have started going back to Mallorca, took second spot.
Sticking to their guns
The Balearic government should stick to their guns when they make a decision”
The risk of pilot schemes
The Balearics pioneered a safe air corridor last year and remember what happened?
Turkey now in the race to gobble up British tourists
Another wake up call for the Balearics and Spain as Turkey now throws itself into the mix of destinations which are intent on opening up first.
We're not going on a summer holiday - still stuck in the UK for a month or two!
This week Frank Leavers talks about the changing nature of tourism and tourists themselves.
Comment
Theme of the week:, How Turkey knocked the stuffing out of the Balearics
Mallorca is on course for a summer to remember...well fingers crossed.
Jason MooreFrank LeaversAnna Nicholas19/02/2022 10:02