Comment: The feeding of the two million
At the height of summer there can be over two million mouths to be fed and watered at any given time.
Their blogs were not to blame for one particular nice beach being so overrun
Bloggers were insisting that their blogs were not to blame for one particular nice beach being so overrun
Have phone, will blog a beach
Bloggers were insisting that their blogs were not to blame for one particular nice beach being so overrun
Beach overcrowding - Don't blame the bloggers!
Tour operators and the authorities are responsible for "saturation"; not a blog.
Tourism
Council continues to decrease cruise passenger saturation
"Their arrival in the old town will be staggered and other areas of Palma that are not so touristy will benefit.”
Tourism
App for managing cruise tourist saturation
The app will let visitors know the places in the city that are most congested.
Demographics
Balearics human pressure is easing
The islands' maximum population this July did not exceed two million, which had been the case last year.
Transport
Excursions coaches add to Palma "saturation"
Excursions coaches head for the port stops and let their passengers off there.
Majorca
Not much of a protest: the week in Majorca
A cruise ship was greeted by a small protest, the tourism minister spoke about small contributions, and Calvia was announcing yet more plans for dealing with summer behaviour.
Tourism
Summer study of tourist saturation
The study is "Tourism load capacity: study of the historic centres in Valldemossa and Palma".
Tourism
New July population maximum for the Balearics
On 29 July there were 2,018,176 people in the Balearics, the highest number ever for a July day.
Majorca
Massification to McDonald's: the week in Majorca
The days of romantic travelling were being recalled, the tourist tax either was or wasn't going to be doubled in winter, the French were misbehaving again, and there was good news for lovers of the Big Mac.
Tourism
Another summer of "saturation" for the Balearics
The hoteliers blame illegal rentals for there being saturation and evidence of so-called "tourismphobia".
Majorca
Lights, goats and flower-picking: the week in Majorca
The start of the Christmas period was officially marked when Palma's lights went on, goats were on the controversy menu, the airports authority was accused of hiding information, Podemos wished to contain tourists, and Calvia was promoting flower power.
Tourism
Barceló announces plan to alleviate tourist pressure
The government's "plan for touristic equilibrium" will address effects of tourism "massification".
Tourism
Tourist "saturation" becoming an environmental concern for the public
The director of the survey says that there is nevertheless a certain "ambivalence" towards the issue of saturation.
Tourism
Activists gather in Palma against tourist "saturation"
At midday today there was an "anti-tourist" route that covered parts of the city most visited by tourists.
Tourism
Mayor does not believe that Palma is "saturated"
Hila didn't consider the increased numbers to necessarily be a bad thing, noting that Augusts of the past have produced similar situations.
- 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
Mallorca saturated?
Perception is the key, and the environment minister says there is "negative social perception".
Andrew Ede25/08/2022 19:57