Mallorca island hostet 10,1 million foreign touritst in the first 8 month of 2019

[Georg]

In the first 8 month of 2019 10.1million foreign tourists went on holiday on Mallorca island, that are 0.2% less than 2018 but they spent whopping 11.1billion Euro that is a plus of 1.8%
Till the bankrup of Thomas Cook the british made the biggest group of tourists with 28.7% followed by germans with 26.1%

https://www.mallorcazeitung.es/loka...istik-weniger-touristen-geben-mehr/71486.html

The british tourist center on Mallorca around the city of Magaluf is the worst part of the island... they took the "crown" from Arenal (Ballermann) were the german party people piss off the spanish citizen daily for several decades... in Arenal the local authorities try since years to cap the alcohol excesses with expansive penaltys... this slowly works and the area is tranforming from a party area back into a "normal" high quality tourist area

 

[Attila the Hun]

Wow Mallorca looks beautiful.

 

[Georg]

Wow Mallorca looks beautiful.

guess why I moved here

not because of spanish cuisine

 

[Vergennes]

In the first 8 month of 2019 10.1million foreign tourists went on holiday on Mallorca island, that are 0.2% less than 2018 but they spent whopping 11.1billion Euro that is a plus of 1.8%
Till the bankrup of Thomas Cook the british made the biggest group of tourists with 28.7% followed by germans with 26.1%

https://www.mallorcazeitung.es/loka...istik-weniger-touristen-geben-mehr/71486.html

The british tourist center on Mallorca around the city of Magaluf is the worst part of the island... they took the "crown" from Arenal (Ballermann) were the german party people piss off the spanish citizen daily for several decades... in Arenal the local authorities try since years to cap the alcohol excesses with expansive penaltys... this slowly works and the area is tranforming from a party area back into a "normal" high quality tourist area

What do you expect when you promote cheap tourism of mass... not only those places get overcrowded,but they attract the worst of the worst people from the UK,Germany,France... Poor locals.

 

[Georg]

some impressions of Mallorca...

The picture in the opening post is Cala Pi

Playa d´en Repic Soller

Valldemossa

Cala Fuigerna

Deià

cathedral of Palma de Mallorca

the big problem of Palma are the giant cruise ships flooding thousends of tourists into the city.... in summer time are in average 5 cruise ships with 3000 to 5900 passengers in harbor... this flood of cruise ship tourits to the normal long stay tourists overflood and overcrowd the city (~500.000 citizen) ... the cruise ship let their engines run all day long during their stay which polute the city with tonns of dirt... Palma de Mallorca has the second worst air polution in the medditerrain sea... only because of the cruise ships... local authoritis now wants to limit the number of cruise ships in harbour to two a day and the ships are forced to turn of their engines and recive their electric energy from the harbor via cable... which makes the stay costs more exansive and hopefully reduce the number of stops

What do you expect when you promote cheap tourism of mass... not only those places get overcrowded,but they attract the worst of the worst people from the UK,Germany,France... Poor locals.

compared to Turkey the holiday in Mallorca is quite expansive... the only advantage are the dirty cheap flight tickets... you can get a flight from Germany to Mallorca and back for under 50€...if you book in a long run you are even able to get Rynair tickets for 5€... the bus ticket from the airport to Palma center is more expansive

 

[Attila the Hun]

guess why I moved here

not because of spanish cuisine

Oh go on, show some of their finest food. I am curious now. Surely some places do some nice food.

 

[Tom_Cruise]

Great pics Georg

Do you have fun with the hoardes of British girls that come over?

 

[Georg]

Oh go on, show some of their finest food. I am curious now. Surely some places do some nice food.

Pella boiled rice and chicken and sea food with curry and other spices...

Great pics Georg

Do you have fun with the hoardes of British girls that come over?

NO luckly I life on the other side of the island outside a village 10minutes walk away from a castell ... I only get to Magaluf because of work... and I am not interessted in red toasted british chicks... they are very easy to ID... if they visit the island their color change from white to red

if you see red skinned 95% are british

 

[Attila the Hun]

Pella boiled rice and chicken and sea food with curry and other spices...



NO luckly I life on the other side of the island outside a village 10minutes walk away from a castell ... I only get to Magaluf because of work... and I am not interessted in red toasted british chicks... they are very easy to ID... if they visit the island their color change from white to red

if you see red skinned 95% are british

Yeah, not for me I'm more into red meat...Not into seafood at all.

 

[Georg]

The castell behind my house...

I life away from tourists view from my entrance towards direction Palma (45km away)

the north Bay of Pollenca view from a customers garden

 

[POTTER]

In the first 8 month of 2019 10.1million foreign tourists went on holiday on Mallorca island, that are 0.2% less than 2018 but they spent whopping 11.1billion Euro that is a plus of 1.8%
Till the bankrup of Thomas Cook the british made the biggest group of tourists with 28.7% followed by germans with 26.1%

https://www.mallorcazeitung.es/loka...istik-weniger-touristen-geben-mehr/71486.html

The british tourist center on Mallorca around the city of Magaluf is the worst part of the island... they took the "crown" from Arenal (Ballermann) were the german party people piss off the spanish citizen daily for several decades... in Arenal the local authorities try since years to cap the alcohol excesses with expansive penaltys... this slowly works and the area is tranforming from a party area back into a "normal" high quality tourist area

What's special in the island?? Whole of india received almost same no. of tourists.

 

[Georg]

What's special in the island?? Whole of india received almost same no. of tourists.

1. only 1 to3 hours flight from every point in Europe.
2. Almost every commercial airport in Europe has direct flights to Palma de Mallorca.
3. From almost every point in Europe you get from your home to the island in less than 10hours from leaving your house till getting into your hotel room.
4. inside EU for EU citizen no boarder control
5. every price is in € no exchange needed...and you can clearly judge prices compared to prices at home.
6. nice landscape
7. over 200beaches
8. good infrastructure... many people rent a car and explore the island
9. many areas with many people from your own nation...so easy to meet someone speaking German english frensh italian
10. price of flight tickets are extrem cheap...as mention befor u get to Mallorca for 50€ and back home.
11. you have beach life, a quiter inner island, mountains up to 1400m for hiking, very popular for sport cyclist, you have a 500.000people capital (more than half of the island citizen life there) with great architecture museum harbor many shops for shopping
12. very low crime rate

 

[POTTER]

1. only 1 to3 hours flight from every point in Europe.
2. Almost every commercial airport in Europe has direct flights to Palma de Mallorca.
3. From almost every point in Europe you get from your home to the island in less than 10hours from leaving your house till getting into your hotel room.
4. inside EU for EU citizen no boarder control
5. every price is in € no exchange needed...and you can clearly judge prices compared to prices at home.
6. nice landscape
7. over 200beaches
8. good infrastructure... many people rent a car and explore the island
9. many areas with many people from your own nation...so easy to meet someone speaking German english frensh italian
10. price of flight tickets are extrem cheap...as mention befor u get to Mallorca for 50€ and back home.
11. you have beach life, a quiter inner island, mountains up to 1400m for hiking, very popular for sport cyclist, you have a 500.000people capital (more than half of the island citizen life there) with great architecture museum harbor many shops for shopping
12. very low crime rate

Thanks and if you like some real adventure, visit Pakistan.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

What's special in the island?? Whole of india received almost same no. of tourists.

It's not that special actually. For instance, Antalya got more tourists I believe. In the first 9.5 months of 2019 over 14 million people visited the city for vacation. In fact, many cities and regions around the world are getting much higher numbers of tourists than Mallorca. However, I don't like tourists at all. They are a burden not a relief.

Paris even received over 30 million tourists! I feel sad for the people who actually live in Paris.

 

[dalvash]

guess why I moved here

not because of spanish cuisine

Very nice! Thanks for sharing. I have heard good things about Malorca from a friend of mine. Do you work in the tourism industry there?