THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 18 ‐ 22 Issue No. 1948 3 - 9 November 2022
MALLORCA • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
HAPPY ENDING IT’S heartwarming to have a happy ending just like in the movies! In good news, a 50‐year‐old, cave diver who went missing in Mallorca on Sunday October 30, has since been found alive and well. The location he went miss‐ ing in is one of the largest un‐ derwater caves in Europe and is more than 10 kilometres long and up to 25 metres deep. The Mallorcan firefighters found the cave diver on Mon‐ day, October 31, after he went missing in the Sa Gleda Cave in Manacor while on a scheduled excursion with two other divers. They reportedly en‐ tered the cave system in the morning with only two of
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Record breaker THE great news for Mallorca’s tourist industry is that hotels have a record‐breaking pre‐booked November counting on 70 per cent occupancy. The summer season is lasting longer than expected in Mallorca with half of the island’s hotel accommodation deciding to remain in operation throughout the month. Playa de Palma, Cala Millor, Alcudia‐Can Picafort, Playa de Muro, Paguera and Palmanova‐Magaluf are the areas with the highest influx of foreigners, with peaks of high demand, especially at weekends. TUI, Alltours, FTI, DER Touristik, Jet2 and easyJet Hol‐ idays have all exceeded their forecasts and have all re‐ ported high occupancies for their German and British flights.
ALIVE AND WELL: The diver was found by the rescue teams after going missing.
them eventually leaving the caves around 4.30pm, but the third man had disappeared. It was at this point that the alarm was raised. Firefighters were deployed to the location from the Manacor fire station, along with members of the In‐
ca Mountain Rescue Group. They were joined in the search by highly‐trained members of the Guardia Civil’s Special Un‐ derwater Activities Group (GEAS). The president of the govern‐ ment, Francina Armengol, ex‐
pressed her satisfaction that “everything has ended well” and celebrated the “magnifi‐ cent work’ of the operation, with firefighters, Guardia Civil, National Police, Civil Protec‐ tion, SAMU, Maritime Rescue and Emergencies 112.
Tourists making different choices THE Balearic Islands counted a total of 1,573,521 overnight stays in non‐ hotel accommodations (tourist flats, rural houses and campsites etc) in September 2022, which is 59.5 per cent more than the same month last year, when 986,105 were recorded. Mallorca was the second most popular location on the Islands for overnight stays counting 698,352
bookings, while Ibiza and Formentera had 375,833 overnight stays. Mallorca achieved an average oc‐ cupancy rate in non‐hotel tourist ac‐ commodations of 56.5 per cent of bed places booked, according to Spain’s Institute of National Statistics (INE). The Balearic Islands were also the favourite destination for rural tourism last September, with a total
of 204,272 overnight stays, which is 19.8 per cent more than in the same month the previous year. A total of 55,157 travellers stayed in the non‐hotel type of accommoda‐ tion with 46,795 of the travellers be‐ ing foreign tourists. In addition, rural tourism prices in the Balearic Islands rose by 10.7 per cent compared to a year ago.
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GOOD NEWS: Many of the island’s hotels are going to remain open throughout the month of November.