Tourism
Tourist tax differences overshadow grand Palacio opening
Gabriel Escarrer Julià called on the government to show greater rigour and consensus in tackling issues such as holiday rentals and tourismphobia.
Tourism
Parliament turns down hotel modernisation extension
The tourism committee also rejected a proposal that the Royal Family should be excluded from the official opening of the Palacio de Congresos.
Tourism
Meliá keeping Magalluf hotels open until December because of congress
The automobile congress in the autumn will need hotel places for some 18,000 people.
Business
British ambassador to speak at Bulletin breakfast at Palma convention centre
The British ambassador, Simon Manley, will be speaking at a Bulletin breakfast at the new Melia hotel at Palma's Palacio de Congresos tomorrow.
Hotels
Meliá Palma Bay Hotel welcomes its first guests
The first guests of the new four-star superior hotel in Palma have arrived.
Business
Opening day for the Palacio
Today is a momentous day for Palma, Majorca and the industry that has evolved to be known as MICE - meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions.
Business
First Palacio event will be in mid-April
The first clients for the hotel will arrive on 3 April, when it is expected that sixty rooms will be occupied.
Business
Fourteen events programmed this year for convention centre
President Armengol said that the Palacio is something of which all the citizens of the Balearics should be proud.
Conferences and exhibitions
Palma's Palacio company is finally making money
The Palacio de Congresos company is now taking in a minimum of 5,000 euros a day from the rent being paid by Meliá.
Elena Sancho-Pereg - L'elisir d'amore - "Prendi, per me sei libero"
Elena Sancho-Pereg (Adina), Philipp Himmelmann (stage director), Kasten Januschke (conductor). Live recording at St. Margarethen Festival, July 2016
Tourism
Everything in place for Palacio de Congresos April opening
In around four years, the Palacio will have had more than 77,000 visitors and generated over 21,000 million euros.
Tourism
Palma taking part in Barcelona business travel fair
The Palacio de Congresos will naturally be to the fore in the Palma 365 promotion.
Tourism
Meliá will open the Palacio de Congresos on 1 April
"I can safely say that the whole complex, including the hotel, is in the best possible hands."
Tourism
Palma in talks over further winter tourism expansion
The UK's Institute of Travel & Tourism has proposed that the institute's 2018 conference be held at Palma's Palacio de Congresos.
Tourism
Palma's Palacio convention centre to open in March
Final agreement between Palma town hall and Meliá was signed in London today.
Business
Meliá wins the contest to manage the Palacio de Congresos
Meliá offered 2,150,000 euros annual rent plus 5.5% of turnover.
Palma
Court rules a suspension in Palacio de Congresos tender process
Hotusa was ruled out of the tender process following the opening of the first envelopes on 3 August.
Palma
Barceló and Meliá both bidding again for Palma's convention centre
The minimum price for renting the complex will be 1,585,000 euros a year, with the winner able to do so for fifteen years.
Palma
Document suggests Palacio contractor was to receive compensation
A document reveals that the PP were preparing a payment of 6.6 million euros compensation.
Holidays sold out, Magalluf selfies and murder: the week in Majorca
Summer holidays will be in short supply, but was there some hyping-up going on?
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