The Council of Majorca has started putting up new
80 kilometre per hour signs along the Via Cintura. The first signs have gone up by the Valldemossa, Puigpunyent (Can Valero industrial estate), La Vileta, Son Dureta and Son Rapinya exits. The rest will be put up over the coming days.
The new speed limit will take effect
from February 1. The reasons for the lower limit are to cut emissions, reduce noise levels and prevent accidents. The Partido Popular opposition at the Council have asked for this lower limit to apply to some sections and not the whole of the Via Cintura. The party says that a mobility commission has not yet been convened, as had been promised by the councillor for mobility, Ivan Sevillano.
From a tourism perspective, 2020 started with there still being plenty of talk about the
collapse of Thomas Cook. For Tui, the bankruptcy was good news. “I’ve never seen sales for the summer like these. I’m seeing double-digit growth in all our markets for this summer,” said Fritz Joussen, the executive chairman of Tui. Sales in the UK in January were the best ever, and the key reason was Thomas Cook. “Many clients have turned to Tui in order to book their holidays, particularly in the UK.”
There was a new Spanish government and this provoked not unusual speculation as to where tourism might be positioned within the structure. The speculation was fruitless.
On Wednesday, the Council of Majorca staged the
Mallorca Virtual Show. A tourism promotion event aimed at the three main tourism markets - the UK, Germany and Spain - some 600 people took part.
These
included tour operator and travel agency representatives, and various municipalities took the opportunity to exhibit themselves. Pollensa was one of them.
As the town hall put it: “We were able to have a virtual booth through which we established a live
communication network with potential customers.”
Anything that promotes the hoped-for reactivation of tourism next year has to be welcomed, so
well done the Council and the town hall.