THE number of passengers travelling through airports in the Balearic Islands has dropped by two percent.
Over 29 million travellers passed through the region’s three airports from January to November. This was a slight drop from 29.7 million the previous year.

Palma’s Son Sant Joan Airport handled 22 million passengers, but this was down by 1.3 percent on the previous year.
However, it was still the busiest airport in Spain, with more passengers than either Madrid’s Barajas or Barcelona’s El Prat airports. International journeys accounted for 16.1 million of the total number with 5.8 million travelling on domestic routes.

The airport in Ibiza handled 4.5 million passengers, a drop of 2.3 percent on the previous year. Almost 2.5 million of these were passengers travelling overseas.

In Minorca, more than 2.5 million travellers passed through the airport during the same period, with 1.3 million on international journeys. This was a decrease of six percent on the previous year

Source Majorca Daily Bulletin

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TEMPERATURES plummeted noticeably in the Islands yesterday producing one of the coldest days so far this Autumn.

In Portopi in Palma, thermometers were registering no more than 7 degrees in the middle of the afternoon whilst the average temperature for this time of the year is 16.5 degrees. Head of the Balearic Met Office, Agustin Jansa said that the highest temperature recordings for the day had been during the early hours of the morning which is another unusual factor. The maximum reached in Portopi was 12 degrees at midnight.

Rainfall was also particularly heavy yesterday, particularly over the latter part of Tuesday into Wednesday morning. To quote an example, between midnight and 8am yesterday, 47 litres of water per square metre fell in Sant Telm and 42 in Lluc. Portopi escaped more lightly with 25 litres per square metre for the whole day. The ongoing rain has meant that the underground springs of Ses Fonts Ufanes have broken the surface in spectacular cascades for the sixth time so far this year.
Source Daily Bulletin

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Most visitors tend to stay around only part of the Majorca coastline, many without realizing about the magnificent inland scenery of plains and mountains that can also be enjoyed.

Palma, the island’s capital, has a population of approximately 300,000, which is practically half of the entire population of the island. It stretches some 15 km along the coastline, from El Arenal and Palma beach in the east as far as the cosmopolitan districts of Cala Mayor and San Agustivities of all kinds are more than well-catered- for here. There are restaurants, cafeteries, pubs, concert halls, discotheques, a bull-ring and all types of shows, offering the visitor entertainment and amusement at all times.

Tourism had already become an important aspect of life on the island of Majorca back in the early 1920’s although on a much smaller scale than today, of course. It was a select, mainly winter tourism which grew up steadily until the begins of the Spanish Civil War. The later “discovery” of Ibiza and Menorca did not occur until well after the Civil War. At that time Majorca was full of artists, who established what was, to all intents and purposes, a colony in and around Pollensa and its port.
One of the most famous of them all was Anglada Camarassa. That conglomeration of artists and poets at Pollensa was to bring about something previously unheard of in island tourism - the construction in 1929 of the Hotel Formentor. It was promoted by the Argentinian entrepreneur Adan Dihel, who even suffered personal hardship in his determination to build the finest hotel on the Mediterranean, near a beach which was not really considered the most adequate place for rest and relaxation. The Hotel Formentor brought about a previously unimaginable change in the island’s tourist industry, and was soon imitated by the Hotel Cala Dor and the Gran Hotel Camp de mar. These new hotels successfully joined forces with the already-existing Hotel Victoria Gran Hotel de Palma and the Hotel Prp.

Illetes Two coves some 75 and 150 meters wide, respectively. Pine trees stretch as far as the shore. Excellent sand.

Portals Nous Small beach with a magnificent urban development.

Palma Nova Excellent beach with fine sand, good installations and pine groves.

Magaluf Magnificent beach with fine sand and crystal-clear waters.

Santa Ponsa Another beach with fine sand and crystal-clear waters.

Peguera Interesting tourist resort. Beautiful, quiet beach with fine sand surrounded by pine trees.

Cala Fornells Small beach with fine sand.

Puerto de Andratx Nearby are the beaches of Camp de Mar and that of San Telm, which is sheltered by Dragonera island. Both have pinewoods.

Ciudad Jarín Banyalbufer (535 inhabitants) Magnificent nearby coves. Typical scenery with tomato fields all around.

Valdemossa (1,300 inhabitants) The Royal Carthusian Monastery has reminiscences of Chopin and George Sand. There is also a small port just a few kilometres away.

Deia (414 inhabitants) A picturesque mountain village with the Llucalcari cover and a small beach.

Puerto de Soller (1,000 inhabitants) Its semi-circular beach is approximately one kilometre in length.

La Calobra A very beautiful cover. Nearby is the Monastery of Lluc and the Torrent de Pareis beach.

Puerto de Pollensa (300 inhabitants) It has the beaches of Cala de Sant Vicencs and Formentor, the former situated some 7 km away from Pollensa. It is very cosmopolitan and has beautiful pine groves running right next to the beach. Formentor beach is 9 km from the port of Pollensa and 16 km from Pollensa itself.

Puerto de Alcudia (500 inhabitants) Has an extensive beach with fine, clean sand, and is the location of many urban developments.

Can Picafort (800 inhabitants) Extensive beach with fine sand and pine groves. Cala Ratjada (1,500 inhabitants) The location of the Artby is an aquarium and a safari park.

Porto Colom (411 inhabitants) Has beautiful beaches, like those of Porto Colom, Cala Murada, Cala Marsal and Arenal.

Satanyi (6,640 inhabitants) Here we find the fishing port of Cala Figuera, surrounded by pine trees. Cala Santanyi lies 5 km away and has fine sand and clean, shallow waters. Other interesting sites include Port Petro, Cala Llonga and Cala D’or - the latter being surrounded by rocks and pine trees.

Colonia de Sant Jordi There i a lovely, sandy beach with crystal-clear waters, as well as pine groves and salt pans.

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PALMA
MAJORCA is one of the most attractive places for a millionaire to spend money even though inflation has seen the purchasing power of one million pounds shrink dramatically since the first tourists jetted to the region.

According to figures released by the Bank of Scotland yesterday, someone would need 17.5 million pounds today to enjoy the equivalent lifestyle of someone with one million pounds 50 years ago because of a 17.5 fold increase in retail prices.

In 1958, one million pounds could purchase a luxury Portals-based yacht, sumptuous Son Vida villa and sleek sports car - and still leave change for a slap-up meal in a top Palma restaurant.

Source: Majorca Daily Bulletin

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Life on Mallorca is often referred to as, ´the dream lifestyle´ for many Europeans. Whilst most European countries suffer cold and depressing winters, the micro-climate of Majorca is very well known for beautiful summers and mild, comfortable winters. When combined with the relaxed attitude and atmosphere that the culture brings, most Europeans find that they can ‘relax’ for the first time in years.
The year-round warm temperatures allow for a totally different lifestyle, enabling those to enjoy life to the fullest. It is the perfect place to enjoy days and evenings outdoors, with over (???) golf courses within easy access, numerous of unspoilt and well-maintained beaches, fantastic cuisine, mountains, breathtaking scenery and not least the international ambiance. Where else can you find such a climate only two hours flight from most European cities?

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Yes, the mid-range market on Mallorca is being squeezed by the global credit crisis - but high-end properties with high - end prices are still in demand.
In April this year, there was actually a slight increase in British buyers. It seems that they’ve ‘accepted’ the sterling-euro exchange situation for the moment and are not waiting to see - as they were back in January - if the pound will recover.”

The good news for Mallorca, however, is that it hasn’t had the uncontrolled over-building we’ve seen in recent years in areas of the mainland. Planning regulations are being implemented more strictly than ever before. And so the high-end market, as we’ve heard, still has demand exceeding supply, particularly when it comes to beach-front and frontline golf properties.
But when it comes to handing over hard cash, it’s in an economic downturn that the truth of the old property adage hits home: better to buy the worst house on a desirable road, than the best house on a less-desirable road. In other words, designer brands may be more expensive - but in the end, they’re better value!

It is easy to see why Mallorca is a favourite with overseas homebuyers.
The property market on the largest Balearic island is still booming with super rich buyers from France, Ireland, Russia, Sweden and Eastern European countries dominating the top end of the market. Most property professionals agree that business has been healthy, with steady requests for the two bed, two bath apartment, preferably with sea view. The top end of the market has been flying high with the best high end properties being snapped up before even making photograph stage, let alone to agency websites.
Agents report that business in 2007 was even better than in 2006 despite the US and European credit crunches and worries over Spain’s property market. Despite the anxiety surrounding other parts of Spain at the moment Mallorca is still a very safe investment. Property prices are pretty much guaranteed to remain steady due to the fact there is limited land available, a newly elected regional government in the Balearics has suggested it will limit building, so any existing properties on the island will be in high demand, but this simply makes Mallorca more exclusive, pushing up prices as supply falls further behind demand.
Spain’s pain has been Mallorca’s gain these past few years. Not only because wealthy international property-hunters who might previously have bought in ’the Costas’ have been diverting en masse to the jewel of the Balearics, but because the Mallorcan authorities have managed to steer the island away from the crass over-development that has scarred so much of southern Spain.

Tourism is Mallorca’s life-blood, but with 95% of holidaymakers concentrated in only 5% of its territory, up market tourists of the residential kind have plenty of room to spread their wings in less-developed areas of this elegant island. Meanwhile, massive current and future investment in Mallorca’s road, marina and golf infrastructure can only enhance the island’s status as one of Europe’s safest and most rewarding overseas-property destinations, where, in the past decade, average house prices have grown twice as fast as those on the mainland.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are well-known holiday-home owners on Mallorca, near neighbours include Andrew Lloyd Webber, PR guru Lynne Franks, Boris Becker, Claudia Schiffer, Michael Schumacher, The Norwegian and Spanish royal families to name but a few.

With super-rich buyers from France, Ireland, Russia and Sweden now homing in on a market traditionally dominated by Britons and Germans, Mallorca’s leading international agents are in expansive mood. Convinced that the momentum at the top end of the market is now ’unstoppable.’

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The Mallorcan property market has been booming in recent years and is one of the healthiest in Europe. With strict building regulations in force to prevent over development, it is expected that prices will continue to rise and when taken into account with the buoyant holiday rental market on the island, Mallorcan property can be considered to be an excellent investment.

Buyers keen to escape the grey UK for a new life in sunny Mallorca are being urged to move quickly, following news that prices on the Balearic Islands have soared by a staggering 15.26% in the last 12 months, according to Spain´s largest newspaper, El Mundo.
Demand from all over Europe for properties on Mallorca has resulted in a limit to the new land available, pushing prices up.

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