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When Orson Welles made F for Fake , he came to the Balearics. The film focused on Elmyr de Hory and his art forgery. The writer Clifford Irv...

Some few years ago now, I was chatting to a good friend who is in the excursions business about cultural excursions in the low season (somet...

Cultural tourism. Discuss. It's a term we hear a great deal of. It forms part of the grand alternative to Mallorcan sun and beach. But w...

The national government has yet another tourism scheme up its sleeves. This one is called "España Verde" (Green Spain) and, like ...

The visitor to Mallorca is unlikely to know a great deal about the Spanish "paradores". Mallorca doesn't have a parador; nor d...

Will culture ever become the main reason for tourists visiting Mallorca? The chances are extremely remote. Yet a professor of tourism at Gir...

I'm back in 1973. On a ferry crossing the Aegean. Two Irish girls have become my travelling companions. We are passing the uninhabited i...

Had you attended matins on Christmas Eve, you would have heard the chant of the Sybil - Sibil·la. The chant, together with the carrying of a...

Buried among the items in the "Balearic news round-up" in "The Bulletin" yesterday was something that deserved to be in...

"This cultural tourism stuff," I'm saying. "If there were to be a company that brought aspects of it together, created a ...

There were no parties in Madrid. The samba danced on till the wee smalls in Rio instead. The Olympics. Some years from now. There were presu...

At one time when I lived in London, before they closed the station, I used occasionally to get a sudden urge to travel to the far end of the...

Another day, another tourist website. I suppose I shouldn't complain given that I have vague connections with such a thing myself, but d...

Another day, another report. This one says that over 70% of holidaymakers coming to Spain prefer a beach and sun holiday to other forms of h...