Mallorca retail sector panic
Industry says summer sales are much more successful thanks to the influx of foreign tourists.
Private jets at Palam airport.
Private jets at Palam airport.
Climate change
New tax threat to private jets and luxury yachts in Spain
In Spain, there were 27,122 private jet landings in 2023, 7,502 at Palma airport.
Arsen Feci, 49, from Nottingham.
Arsen Feci, 49, from Nottingham.
Man who fled to Spain after being charged with small boat people smuggling convicted
National Crime Agency officers started an investigation into Arsen Feci, 49, from Nottingham, and his organised crime group after a coastguard plane saw migrants being offloaded from a RHIB, named Orca, in Joss Bay, Kent in the early hours of 9 October 2022.
Mass tourism is making a large number of people think twice about certain destinations.
Mass tourism is making a large number of people think twice about certain destinations.
Travel
Majority of Britons will avoid “overcrowded” destinations
63% of Britons likely to reject a destination because of overcrowding.
One the snakes caught in Ibiza.
One the snakes caught in Ibiza.
3,878 snakes caught in the Balearics
Over the next four years almost two million euros of tourist tax will be allocated to the control of invasive species.
The Playa de Muro has been awarded in the past.
The Playa de Muro has been awarded in the past.
Mallorca has the “third best beach in Europe”
So, if you are going to be in Mallorca and want to visit the Playa de Muro, head east, past the bustling town of Alcudia.
Meghan and Harry have a complicated relationship with the Balearics.
Meghan and Harry have a complicated relationship with the Balearics.
Meghan and the Balearics have been in trouble before
Ironically, Prince William and Kate Middleton stayed with Kate’s uncle in Ibiza in August 2006.
The location of this week's quake in the Balearics.
The location of this week's quake in the Balearics.
Balearics shaken but not stirred by earthquake
There have been more than 55 earth tremors in the Balearics in the last 400 years.
French senator, Martine Berthet of Savoie, sparked calls for the 90-day cap to be eased or lifted in Spain.
French senator, Martine Berthet of Savoie, sparked calls for the 90-day cap to be eased or lifted in Spain.
Fresh French push to make life easier for British second-home owners, and Spain?
“My proposal is first and foremost focused on British landlords wishing to visit France more and for longer. It offers them an entry procedure that is more suited to their style of stay than the current rule of 90 days in 180 days or the long-stay visa procedure.”
Nearly 71% of Spaniards believe that US President Donald Trump's government will negatively affect Spain's economy
Nearly 71% of Spaniards believe that US President Donald Trump's government will negatively affect Spain's economy
Members of the Guardia Civil bomb squad with the dangerous substance.
Members of the Guardia Civil bomb squad with the dangerous substance.
One of the squatters packed up and ready to leave.
One of the squatters packed up and ready to leave.
- No capacity for growth? Too expensive? TUI expect a record number of tourists in the Balearics in 2025
- Alcudia top “Most Beautiful Town in Spain”
- Britons will soon have to provide fingerprints landing in Mallorca
- Fight over the best flat alerted neighbours to an attempted occupation by squatters in Palma
- Spanish warning about insect dangerous for people and deadly for dogs