The German airline TUI Fly, part of the TUI tourist group, has scheduled flights to Majorca starting next March 27. “In principle, depending on how sales develop, two weekly flights are planned from Germany to Son Sant Joan airport. The announcement will lead us to have to rethink the opening of hotel establishments” chain representatives […]

The proposal that the Balearic islands would be a great place to pioneer the suggested Vaccination Passport system was made at a meeting with the national tourism minister Reyes Maroto and the Spanish secretary of state for tourism, Fernando Valdés. The Balearic government has apparently offered the Spanish government this proposal to experiment with the […]

Only 20 hotels are currently open in the city of Palma de Mallorca due to the ongoing pandemic. In any normal year, more than 95% of the hotel offer was open at this time.  Average occupations do not reach 15% and it has become unfeasible for hotels to operate at this level. The operational offer […]

TUI, the Germany airline has once again begun operating at Palma Airport since last October 15, just a couple of months after it was interrupted. TUI will choose to share flights with other tour operators and German airlines in order to reduce costs in this phase, flying with companies such as Eurowings or Lufthansa, instead […]

Following last year’s pilot project, access to Cap de Formentor will again be restricted for cars and motorbikes this summer. This is due to the high volume of vehicles and the long and frequent traffic jams that have been occurring in the area during high season for many years. In order to improve the situation, […]

On Tuesday, 9.10.2018, heavy storms and torrential rainfall led to a natural disaster with several deaths in the eastern part of the island, where a torrent overflowing its banks caused severe flooding. The small town of Sant Llorenç in the east of the island, several kilometres from the coast, was particularly hard hit, but flooding […]

Alcudia’s listed 14th century town wall is at risk of collapsing in several places – this is the verdict of experts after having closely examined the condition of the wall in recent days. The survey took place after part of the wall collapsed on 17th September. Fortunately, nobody was injured in the incident that occurred […]

During July and August, traffic to Cap de Formentor was restricted with the road being closed during the day for private vehicles, including rental cars. These restrictions have now been lifted and since Saturday, 1st September the road is once again freely accessible to all. Since then, the renewed high volume of vehicles has led […]

Cap de Formentor, the northernmost point of the island, is a popular tourist destination and can get very busy over the summer months. A lot of visitors travel there by car and the narrow and winding access roads can easily get overcrowded, as they are not laid out to cope with high volumes of traffic. […]