
Law of Excesses in Magalluf
What you couldn’t do in Magalluf, you could do elsewhere.

Toursts taking a stroll in Puerto Alcudia
Toursts taking a stroll in Puerto Alcudia.
Mallorca cutting margins
Mallorcan hoteliers may well be selling out to foreign multinationals but this does not guarantee better service for clients.

Tourists on the beach in Calvia
Tourists on the beach in Palmanova and Magalluf.
New travel advice for Britons
The report says that strike action may affect easyJet bases in Spain, such as Malaga, Barcelona and Palma.
Call for free accommodation for summer doctors in Mallorca
In Galicia, accommodation for doctors who reinforce the health service in summer is to be free.
Comment: Policing Mallorca’s summer
The hoteliers are calling for the summer police operation to start earlier than July.
No sunloungers for Can Picafort ... for now
It wouldn’t be the start of the season without there being a row about the non-provision of beach services.
Balearics leads the annual fall in unemployment in March
Service sector is driving the employment recovery.
Seventy per cent of Mallorca's hotels will be closed by end-October
Average hotel occupancy in September was 70%.

British tourists return to Portugal
A Ryanair flight from Manchester arrives at Faro Airport on the first day that Britons are allowed to enter Portugal without needing to quarantine, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions continue to ease, in Faro, Portugal.
Should the tourist tax be scrapped this summer?

Cala Comtessa beach on Mallorca
Cala Comtessa beach on Mallorca.

Tourists in May 2019 getting ready to start the summer season in Puerto Alcudia
Tourists in May 2019 getting ready to start the summer season in Puerto Alcudia.
Viewpoint: Price is going to be king
Vaccines may be the key, but so too will be holiday prices this year.
- Helicopter crashes on ring road, three injured
- Woman seriously injured after being attacked by three pit bulls in Mallorca
- Mallorca hoteliers calling for eight-year sentences for British tourists' false claims
- Motorcyclist dies after head-on collision with a truck
- 83-year-old acquitted of having caused Porreres robber's death
Comment
Don’t penalise Magalluf
“The Law of Excesses has one major flaw; it is only enforced in two resorts on the island. Discrimination or what?”
Jason Moore12/10/2023 13:15