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Spain Prime Minister’s announcement country reopening to international tourists in July boosts holiday apartment bookings in Mallorca and Ibiza

By Cathy Elelman • Published: 27 May 2020 • 15:14

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LAST weekend’s comments by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that the country will reopen to international visitors in July, followed by the announcement that the 14-day quarantine requirement on travellers coming in from another country will then cease to apply, appear to have boosted holiday accommodation bookings in the Balearic Islands.

The head of the Habtur Balearic tourist accommodation association, Maria Gibert, told Spanish press that the number of reservations for places in Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera for this summer has gone up notably in recent days.

Apartments on the coast are in particularly high demand. So too are country houses with swimming pools.

Gibert reported that the majority of the bookings have been from people in other European countries, especially Germany, or from Balearic Island residents. Interest among Spaniards on the mainland however remains relatively low.

Last year more than two million tourists stayed in holiday accommodation in the Balearics, nearly 1.3 million of them in Mallorca.

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Cathy Elelman

Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.

Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.

Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.

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    • Marvin

      27 May 2020 • 21:23

      Great news about the Spanish boost to the island’s economy.
      In the UK, the main hurdle of getting back to normality is getting a grip with the Coronavirus.
      It’s proving very frustrating and no one is 100% sure when we can jump on a plane safely as yet. UK flights are being scheduled to fly from late June early July, so fingers crossed!

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