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The summer season. the uk is spain's single biggest tourist market however over the last few days, the situation has changed. the spanish government has expressed concern at the rise in cases of covid in the uk and in particular the spread of the delta variant. as a result, the spanish government as of today has introduced these new measures which mean you have to present either a certificate of vaccination or proof of a negative covid test over the last 48 hours to get into the country. now all this is happening the same week that the british government has added the balearic islands to its s...

For a time on Thursday the Albercuix beach in Puerto Pollensa needed to be closed. Was this because of the not infrequent spills of wastewater, the source of which - as Mayor Cifre acknowledged on Thursday - is unknown? Not as such. It was caused by a failure of propulsion pumps. There was an electricity cut and this resulted in an escape of water from the sewage network ending up in the sea. Procedures were activated to solve the fault, and the problem was soon sorted out, albeit that the water would have to “self-purify”, to quote the mayor. Picking up on this, the opposition Junts Ava...

Today's announcement is good news for some. after over a month of hoping, malta is one of the countries that will go green from next wednesday. bermuda and barbados will also go green, but all of the new additions apart from malta were on the green watchlist meaning the government is warning they are at risk of going to amber. the red list is also getting longer with six additions including tunisia and uganda. the green list does not go far enough for the industry. we are delighted the balearics, malta, is on the green list but it's disappointing that the government still don't seem to be foll...

Inclusion of the lyric —— balearic islands. british tourists are the single biggest market, the biggest foreign market for the spanish tourism industry. spain is absolutely desperate to get british tourists visiting again. so, this is seen as potentially a big boost for the spanish economy overall. i think speaking to businesses here, they are optimistic about this. but obviously this doesn't affect madrid itself, its affects the balearic islands. 0n the spanish government has been lobbying the uk government over the last few weeks, asking it to include those areas of spain on the green li...

I am in the plaza de santa ana in central madrid which is normally a big magnet for tourists. you can see there are people wandering around, but certainly many fewer than you would normally expect. people certainly here have been very encouraged by the inclusion of the balearics on that green list, that is seen by good news by the balearic islands and the spanish economy as a whole. british tourists are the single biggest market, biggest foreign market, for the spanish tourism industry. spain is absolutely desperate to get british tourists visiting again and so this is seen as a big boost, pot...