Business with the most relaxing weeks of the year is back in full swing after the tough coronavirus years. Tour operators report strong bookings so far. German airlines are reasonably relaxed about.
There is plenty of optimism for the travel year 2023 at alltours. During the current winter season the group is expecting a 20 per cent rise in visitor
Simón Pedro Barceló is co-president of the Barceló Group and is the chief representative of one of Mallorca’s Big Four hotel companies - Iberostar, Meliá, Riu are the other three.
Early in April, it was observed that Barceló had been strangely silent during the pandemic, whereas other leading hoteliers had been saying a great deal, especially Gabriel Escarrer of Melía, who is also - it should be noted - the president of the Exceltur alliance of excellence of major tourism and travel companies. It would have been strange, therefore, had Escarrer not been as vocal as he has been.
On Monday, the chief financial officer of
Tui, Sebastian Ebel, met President Armengol and tourism minister, Iago Negueruela, in order to analyse the tourism situation caused by the pandemic, the level of vaccination in the Balearics and the
opening of establishments in Mallorca from the end of this month.
With the German government due to shortly
lift its advice against travel to the Balearics because of the improved health situation, Ebel called for there to be maximum speed with the vaccination programme in the Balearics in order to allow there to be a summer season. He also called for a commitment to safe air corridors and the vaccine passport. He added that if the health data continue to improve as they are, then holiday flights to Mallorca from Germany at Easter are probable.