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“I think it’s better to have those drinking ghettoes, Playa de Palma and Magalluf, where people go, rather than these intellectual types of ...

In the late 1960s, a leaflet was produced to promote the Cossier folk dancers of Algaida. This was a curious time for Mallorca and its tradi...

"The biggest fruit in the world." This was a headline on the BBC website's home page. The fruit was a pumpkin, a fruit in whic...

There was one revealing quote from the interview with Esteve Bardolet* ( “The Bulletin” , 20 November). Well, two, but I’ll come to the seco...

The rarity with which anyone in the tourism industry utters some common sense demands that, when it is uttered, attention should be paid. Th...

If you were a business chief executive and you sanctioned the payment of a "lagola" to an MBA-toting consultant, you might find yo...

The Balearics may still be the leader when it comes to Mediterranean holidays, but this position is under threat. Tell us something we didn...

I should of course have mentioned, as a follow-up to 10 February, Mirror Man, that Sara passed her driving theory test. This is not bad goin...

One of those catching-up days, with feedback on a number of things - cleanliness, tourism strategy and the Pollensa Ç carry-on. Oh, and weat...

Well absolutely no surprise. This has been the rainiest May on record. And this Saturday dawned with a return of grey skies and drizzle. The...

As alluded to yesterday, this pow-wow at the British Consulate. You may recall my reporting on a meeting that took place between the British...

If it's the 20th May, must be update day. Follow-ups to the Chinese bazar and tourism density stories. On the first one, it's been b...

Ego tourism. What an excellent expression. Why didn't I think of it? But I didn't and have to hand it to John Swarbrook of Sheffield...

“You know who I had in the back of my cab …” Ah yes, the London cabbie. Knowledge of the roads and knowledge of any subject you care to ment...

Is 2008 going to be such a good year? All the prognostications that were being offered towards the end of the old year suggested that it wou...

The condohotel concept seems to be the latest “big idea” (see previous – 22 November). Already operating in southern Spain, it looks set to ...

More on the “Gran Escala” project near Zaragoza (25 November: Bond Themes). “The Times” confirms what its Sunday sister paper had spoken of ...

Ramón Llull. I referred to him yesterday and have before on this blog. It is not just Herr Link, to whom I also referred yesterday, who woul...

Is Paco de Lucía the tourist image that the Balearics needs? This is a question posed in today’s “Ultima Hora”. The Spanish guitarist is now...

Despite my scepticism, word coming from the World Travel Market suggests that Mallorca can expect a “spectacular” increase in the number of ...