Britain’s richest Mallorca landowners join forces to open new hotel
Branson to open second hotel in Mallorca in 2026.
The Wall Street Journal lists its best Mallorca hotels for Americans this year
Rafa Nadal and the Meliá chain have caught the US eye.
Mallorca hotel has the best breakfast in the world
The award for Best Hotelier of the Year went to Gabriel Escarrer Jaume, Chairman and CEO of Meliá Hotels International.
Selling up? Big rise in the number of hotels for sale in Balearics
Majority of big international chains represented on the island.
Sir Richard Branson to open second luxury Mallorca hotel in 2026
Sir Richard secured approval for a second hotel on the estate in 2021.
Mallorcan is Spain’s seventh richest person
There are more than 120 Iberostar hotels worldwide
New British-owned luxury hotel opens in Santa Ponsa
Open year-round, Kimpton Aysla Mallorca will be home to two restaurants, two bars, two outdoor swimming pools and a 900 sqm Maison Codage Paris spa
Easter inspections find high degree of compliance
270 reports for breaches of regulations.
Economy
Spain's hotel occupancy crashed in first half of 2020
The rate of occupancy in Spanish hotels more than halved in the first six months of the yea.
The Blog
A Hotel Really Can Be Like A Home
For hoteliers, the current crisis is one of liquidity. Going forward, there has to be a doubt about all the existing hotel stock. Will it be needed?
Tourism
“Tourists kill the city" graffiti springing up in Palma
The police are still investigating a wave of similar incidents dating back to last summer.
Building
No more new hotels to be permitted in the centre of Palma
Any form of new moratorium on new hotels in the city centre will not be introduced until September or October.
Meeting
Crisis talks in Calvia over falls from hotels
Two Britons have already died in balcony falls this summer and another is in a serious condition in hospital.
Tourism
Hoteliers have hiked their rates by 10 percent for next year
Some sectors of the tourist industry consider it a gamble, but Majorcan hoteliers have managed to increase rates by as much as ten percent for 2018.
Branson's Virgin Hotels is taking over a London property owned by the Reuben Brothers, all are big land owners in Mallorca.
Branson's Virgin Hotels is taking over a London property owned by the Reuben Brothers, all are big land owners in Mallorca.
Tourism
Tourism sector heading for another record year
With respect to the uncertainty generated by Brexit, the hoteliers are more confident that the UK market will still show a positive trend.
Hotels
Hoteliers opposed to building licence suspensions in Palma
A three-year moratorium on licences would not be possible as suspensions can only be for one year.
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- British tourists will be “tracked” while on holiday in Mallorca
- 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"
The Week in Tourism
German tourism: the mixed messages
We have in the Balearics a proposal from the Association of Hotel Chains that there could be a "test" from the middle of June.
Andrew Ede08/05/2020 04:01