Ryanair has opened its second Belgian base at Brussels Zaventem with four aircraft set to offer ten new routes, delivering up to 1.5 million passengers per year. The low cost carrier revealed the move will result in sustaining 1,500 “on-site” jobs at Brussels Zaventem Airport with 200 weekly flights. The decision to start flying out […]
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Ryanair’s network re-invention at Brussels Airport
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VAT hikes will not hit Mallorca as hard as feared
Proposed hikes in VAT have caused an uproar in Mallorca and all across the Balearics recently. A government plan to hike VAT from 8% to 18% this Friday when the new budget is announced had led many spokespeople and workers within the tourism industry to complain, saying that tourism in Majorca and the other Balearic […]
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The wait is over ….
Mallorca Rocks is back with its most exciting bill to date; a truly incredible array of the most in-demand festival headliners, music pioneers and best breakthrough artists set to take over the Balearics every Tuesday during the 16 week-long, sun-drenched series of open-air gigs at the Mallorca Rocks Hotel. Opening with the incredible Ed Sheeran in June and closing […]
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Mallorca tops Spain for nights spent in hotels
MALLORCA was the Spanish tourist resort which registered the highest number of overnight hotel stays last year, with 41.6 million, new National Statistics Institute estimates reveal. Almost six and a half million tourists visited the island during 2011, of which 5.5 million were foreign residents. Regionally the Balearics were only topped by the Canary Islands. […]
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The Jazz Voyeur Festival
The eighth Jazz Voyeur Festival will be taking place on the 23rdof November in the city of Palma and is a wonderful event for music lovers and, in particular fans, of Jazz. The event gives visitors and residents of Mallorca a great chance to catch some of top artists and bands of the genre. From its inception […]
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Tourism to Spain increases by 8%
Recently released figures by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce show that during the summer months of July to September the number of tourists flocking to the Spain increased by over 8 percent compared to 2010, with September alone welcoming nearly six million tourists making that month one of the best on record. […]
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Spain real estate sector to bounce back in near term
Spain’s real estate sector is optimistic that it will turn for the better in the next 18 months, according to a recent survey by international consultants CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). Spanishpropertyinsight.com says quoting a report by CBRE that 7% of surveyed investors planned to invest in residential property early next year. While investors opt to […]
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Mallorca in talks for €300m theme park
A DANISH company is planning a theme park in Mallorca which would involve an investment of up to €300 million. Regional Government President, Jose Ramon Bauza met with representatives from the company to discuss the park which would occupy an area of between 100 and 150 hectares. Theme Park Group ApS has requested the support of the […]
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On the Beach: Brits Look for Holidays Abroad
On the Beach say that Brits are increasingly heading abroad for their holidays, with trips to Spain proving most popular. On the Beach, the UK’s leading online travel agency, say that British people are increasingly choosing to spend their holidays abroad. The company has found that more and more Brits are opting to spend their […]