
Holidaymakers arriving at Palma Son Sant Joan Airport, Mallorca
For all the talk of not growing, forecasts are for a record tourism year.
Tourism in Mallorca "should not keep growing"
Spain's secretary-of-state for tourism reiterates a Balearic strategy to diversify beyond sun and beach.
Mallorca restaurants concerned by drop in March business
This said, March last year was an unexpectedly good month.
Criticisms of tourism in Franco’s days
The invaded island of 1969 had seen nothing like the invasion that was to come and which today gives rise to uncensored criticism and to demands for the very control that had been absent.
There are politicians who fail to understand that "we all live off tourism"
Miguel Ángel Beltrán is an official tour guide. He has views about regulations, cruise tourism and more ...
Council of Mallorca now says there will be no new tourist accommodation places anywhere
Some 13,000 hotel or holiday rental places that are available will not be used.
Mallorca's tourism set for a bumper Easter
Easter bookings way up on pre-pandemic 2019.

Xavier Pasquet, Director of Tourism, Calvia
Xavier Pasquet, Director of Tourism, Calvia talks to Mallorca Bulletin Editor Jason Moore.
Whose islands are they, anyway?
Mallorca has been looking to attract even more French, Italians and Spanish this year, only to now discover that the British and Germans are in full recovery mode
"In Madrid they think everyone on the islands is on holiday"
Canary Islands politician Pedro Quevedo applauds Balearic policy to limit holiday rentals and tourist accommodation places.
Tourism season facing new uncertainty from the banking crisis
Increased risk of recession could negatively impact tourism and economic growth forecasts.
Airlines looking at rescheduling flights to Mallorca rather than Turkey
Concerns among airlines and tour operators about safety in Turkey.
Bad Mallorca press
The British press are having a field day with stories of the Balearics not wanting Brits any more.
300,000 more German tourists coming to Mallorca this year
This increase will take the total number of German tourists back to what it was before the pandemic.
A "record" tourism year predicted for the Balearics
President Armengol nevertheless suggests that there will not be the same "peaks of maximum visitor activity".

Summer tourism season 2023
Tourists on the beach in Paguera.
Balearics say again - Quality tourism, not quantity
The Balearics must become "one of the most sustainable destinations in the world".
Mallorca to improve connections with the United States and Portugal this season
Most hotels will be open in March.
- Balearics looking to ban all holiday lets in apartments
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- Alcudia top “Most Beautiful Town in Spain”
- The transformation of Mallorca's tourism begins now
- Britons will soon have to provide fingerprints landing in Mallorca
Majorca tourism
How dare Mallorca change
There are those who are uncomfortable with change and so you get observations which basically appear to want Mallorca to fall flat on its face.
Andrew Ede05/04/2023 15:03