50th glorious years of the daily publication

Had you been on holiday in Majorca in 1963, you might have wondered to yourself what the island would be like in fifty years time. You wouldn’t have been able to have imagined the future. You wouldn’t have been able to have predicted the development of the resorts and the influx of tourists. You would have seen resorts with barely a handful of hotels, tracks for roads, horse and carts competing with rudimentary SEAT cars. If someone had said to you that in fifty years time that these resorts would welcome over eight million tourists each year, that there would be so many hotels that almost 300,000 people could stay in them at any one time, that the population of the island, even without tourists, would be edging towards the one million mark, you would have told that someone that he was mad. You wouldn’t have been able to have imagined it. No one would have been able to have imagined it.