Mallorca loses top holiday spot to Crete says TUI
According to TUI sources, Greece could be open for business as early as April.
The dates of tourism spring, and vaccination in the slow lane
Compared with other main tourism regions, the Balearics are well behind in terms both of the number of doses delivered and the number administered.
Vaccines for the Balearics "on a massive scale" towards end-March
A high vaccination rate will be important for reactivating tourism.
Cruise Ships could be back in Palma in May
The Costa Luminosa will also be back in service on May 2, with a one-week trip from Trieste to Greece and Croatia with a stopover in Bari.
Tour Operators say vaccination is key recovery in Mallorca
Tourist Groups say the Greek Islands of Crete, Kos and Rhodes are currently topping the list of preferred destinations for summer holidays.
Playa de Palma, Mallorca in summer 2020
Hopes of rather more tourists than in late summer 2020.
Spain continues to look to vaccination passport for tourism reactivation
The secretary of state for tourism believes there will be gradual recovery of foreign tourism in the summer.
The tourism sector launches an SOS campaign to the Administration
The tourism sector launches an SOS campaign to the Administration.
SOS Turismo Initiative to be launched in Mallorca
"The well-being and prosperity of all of us who live on the Island depends on Tourism being reactivated as soon as possible."
Attractions facing same uncertainty as the rest of the tourism industry
Mallorca's tourist attractions hope that there might be some activity in May.
Vaxgate: the week in Mallorca
No one was resigning; everyone was developing a passport; and the stats seemed strangely acceptable.
British government developing vaccine passport
Spain is urging the introduction of a common vaccination passport.
Magalluf in July 2020
The hoteliers are increasingly pessimistic.
Hoteliers federation: half of Mallorca's hotels won't open this summer
Business associations are becoming increasingly critical of the government.
Vaccine before holiday
Spanish experts and politicians fear the Minister for Tourism has jumped the gun.
Passengers at airport check-in
Under two million foreign tourists in 2020.
Balearics foreign tourism fell 87% in 2020
The Balearics would normally receive the second highest number of foreign tourists; this was not the case in 2020.
Covid and tourism: What if Més were still in charge?
"When Més lost ground in the 2019 elections,...the PSOE stopped pandering Més and its tourist ambitions."
- 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"
Comment
Let Tui do the lot
Coach operators have been deprived of a significant part of their activity by businesses which cannot be defined as big.
Andrew Ede11/02/2021 13:08