MAJORCA /
MALLORCA
Majorca is not only part of the Key Stage
3 course, but has also been added as a case study on the GCSE course. Tourism
within the EU but outside of the UK has to be studied.
MAJORCA LINKS
Updated
November 2006 - most disappeared...
- http://www.mallorcaonline.com – Home page
for the island (in German and English, but has pictures!)
- http://mallorca-market.com/english/index-e.htm
– more tourist related info, including a very nice map of
the island
- Majorca was featured on a Radio 4 programme which looked at the
water shortages affecting the island. (June 2003) Majorca is, of course, in the
Mediterranean climate, which means a summer drought at a time when most tourist
visitors are resident on the island and demanding swimming pools, showers etc.
The island attracts celebrities such as Michael Douglas,
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Claudia Schiffer. That may or may not put you off going
to the island...
- Try the BALLEARIC
site for more detail. This has now become a useful interactive resource on the
island.
Recently found a range of other stuff relating to Majorca.
- First up is the official
BALEARIC ISLANDS
TOURIST OFFICE. This has a HUGE range of information and PDF downloads and
is probably one of the better sites for general information on the islands.
- If you want to go into more detail on STATISTICS and stuff, try the FINESTRA
TURISTICA site. This has, for example, a 140 page PDF download giving more
information than you could ever want on tourist visitor numbers to Majorca and
the other Ballearic islands. Check out the site
HERE.
Try some other searches and you'll find some amusing incidents of people's
holiday on the island, Blogs etc. would give useful alternative views
(sometimes perhaps a little too alternative...)
Majorca was one of the first places in the world to
experience mass tourism (and shortly after appreciate the problems it
brought....) - the island's tourist board is celebrating its CENTENARY in 2005.
The island has gone through a phase of bulldozing and
blowing up some of the hotels in the more popular (notorious...) resorts, and
spent millions on sea-front promenades. Calvia council led the way here.
Now available: a MAJORCA ASSESSMENT which is both
formative and summative.... Get it HERE.
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