The ABTA travel association has confirmed that, despite Mallorca and the Balearics having been on the UK's amber list, the islands have been the top destinations for British holidaymakers.
Other "amber" destinations, such as Greece, have also been popular, ABTA pointing out that those on the green list, with the odd exception, aren't places where the British would go on holiday.
Eliminating quarantine for travellers from amber list destinations who had been double vaccinated undoubtedly gave Mallorca (and Spain) a boost, and British holidaymakers in July helped to push the Balearics into first place in terms of the number of foreign tourists. Traditionally, the Balearics have had the second highest number of foreign tourists in the summer after Catalonia.
For the late-August bank holiday period, ABTA notes that the most popular destinations were Mallorca and Crete.
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Majorca will always be popular with English visitors but are there many holiday makers in resorts and in particular Palma Nova at present ?
Bit of a strange headline, - and logic too. Mallorca was not on the Amber list until the British tourists came and sent our contagion rates soaring. If they'd gone to any other Green List country instead they would have changed that too...