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The calle Major in Alcudia runs from the Plaça Constitució to the Porta Mallorca (Sebastian) gate of the reconstructed city walls. The most ...

Steady. Don't get excited. Not that you probably were getting excited. A year or two ago maybe, but not now. Justin Bieber, teen moppet ...

Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, is not someone you would necessarily expect to crop up in a tourism article, but w...

Proof, if it were needed, and really it wasn't, that the season has misfired comes in the form of a report from the organisation for sma...

It seems that barely a day cannot pass without some report or other stating that sales are well down. There was that one not so long ago tha...

More on hotels. There are, from time to time, the bugles of the changing of the nationality guard at certain hotels. Three years ago, the re...

The problem with the cyclists is that they don’t contribute anything to the local bars and restaurants. As a couple of hotels in Playa de Mu...

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...

Good or bad, bad or good. You pays your money, and you takes your choice. Or rather you may not take a choice if you happen to be a small tr...

So the Balearics did enjoy a record year. Between January and September there was a plus 6% increase in the number of visitors (11,5 million...

How much does it cost for a tourist in Mallorca? I’ve spoken about this before, and we get a lot about tourist spend. In a piece on 5 July (...

I don’t know, I get pretty confused. All this statistical stuff. We’re back to the subject of how well, or not, restaurants have been doing ...

Well more statistics if you can bear them. “Ultima Hora” today reports that it is indeed a record year. The front-page headline blares out: ...

Today’s leader in “Ultima Hora” refers to the fact that 2007 “is going to be a record year”. Elsewhere, it reports that turnover among busin...

Welcome back to the Department of Fatuous Statistics. The first six months has seen the level of tourist spend on the islands increase by so...

I don’t normally talk about trivial matters such as what I do on a Saturday evening, but for once I will. I was having a curry at New Delhi ...

Daft or what? It has been known for this blog to present tourism statistics. It has also been known for the rip to be taken out of these sta...

Well, hopefully. Word is things are not too great this season. There again, you hear this every year. Someone said it’s 30% down. There are ...