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Fifty years ago this coming Saturday, Maria Steiner, a Swiss citizen, received a pleasant surprise. She and her husband Roger were to be tre...

London's World Travel Market starts today. It is one of the world's leading fairs for the travel and tourism industry. Balearic re...

Belgians might seem unlikely contributors to Mallorca's tourism history. It's not as if one hears a great deal about the importance ...

Of the various pioneers of Mallorca's tourism, some became great names and created great dynasties, others did not become great names bu...

Ninety years ago, on 20 July 1924, there was an inauguration in Cala Bona. It wouldn't have been a grand affair. It is doubtful that num...

(In the previous two articles I have argued that it was war and what followed - economic autarky and then technocracy - which destroyed the ...

In the first article in this series I looked at how Mallorca's tourism, had it not been for war, would have developed organically in lin...

It's a game we can all play, the what-if game. Ultimately futile, it is nonetheless a game which can be instructive in explaining how th...

In a few days time we will wish April goodbye. We will thank it for its mostly blissful and unusually warm weather. Thank it for bringing ri...

There was a strange moment on Friday evening. I was listening to the playback of the latest edition of Radio 2's "The People's ...

In 1963, the total number of tourists who came to Mallorca was 608,000. 80% of them were foreigners, and the British formed the single lar...

It mystifies me why more is not made of an aspect of Mallorcan and Spanish history that is, for many people, more relevant and more real tha...