It increases to a 240% the purchase of flights to Ibiza

The purchases of flights to Ibiza increased to a 239% in the months of January and February of this year, in comparison with the same period of the previous year, a growth superior to the ascent of the 124% of the average national, according to informed yesterday the on line travel agency eDreams. In this same period, Ibiza also registered a "spectacular growth" as far as the reserves of hotels contracted through eDreams, that were both increased a 900% in first months, whereas the average of the rest of Spanish hotel establishments was located in 340%. During the first months of the 2006, the tickets sold in Ibiza as city of origin increased a 264%.

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Ibiza : Sant Antoni requests authorization to extend the service of videovigilancia

The San Antonio, Ibiza City council tries to altogether cover more strategically important points with the use with 12 cameras. This summer will return to work together with Local Police and Guaria Civil in the Passeig of ses Fonts.

The City council of Sant Antoni, Ibiza will ask for the pertinent authorization to return to install next summer the system of videovigilancia that experimented in the two previous seasons, although with greater cover. According to the councilman of Interior, Joan Pantaleoni announced yesterday, they will try to install a total of twelve cameras, that is to say, five more than the seven than they worked the last year. Pantaleoni made these declarations after the meeting in Sant Antoni, yesterday at noon, the mayor also attended , Jose Sala; the insular director of the State, Jose Manuel Bar, and representatives of the bodies and forces of security. In the encounter a series of points for next summer was analyzed, like the traffic in the highway of Ibiza town, or the subjects that are considered high-priority, as the fight against the drug traffic and other crimes. Jose Manuel Bar assured that "the numbers testify that Sant Antoni is becoming a more secure tourist destiny". Bar was satisfied by the service that lent the installed provisional police ofice during three months of summer in the dependencies of the old City council in the Passeig of ses Fonts, that will repeat east year. During the time the police ofice worked , the Civil Guard gathered 471 denunciations and the Local Police, 127. Those of the Civil Guard they corresponded to robberies and other crimes, although those of the Local Police were in part of lost objects or questions related to municipal ordinances. The problems derived from the traffic in the highway of Vila were study object, not only by the increase of traffic that normaly supposes the opening of the discos, but by works of extension which this route is put under and that mayor, Jose Room, recognized that they already cause of some cloggings in the town of Sant Rafel. Alternatives to avoid Sant Rafel "the City council is taking the possible measures as far as reinforcements from the Local Police for the traffic control in Sant Rafel - the mayor indicated -. Also on the part of the Govern will be published informative pamphlets offering alternative routes to arrive at Sant Antoni, from airport by Sant Josep, like by Santa Gertrudis and Buscastell or the old way of Sant Mateu, so that the traffic is alleviated a little". With respect to the schedule of the discotecas, the mayor remembered that recently the City council has approved a modification of the decree, in which it prohibit "after hours" until the 12 of the noon.Sala affirmed that the security meeting agrees in applying all the measures to make fulfill the schedules established, as much of closing of establishments as of music. The same decree increases the sanctions in this aspect. Also one hopes that this summer the goverment Law of Spectacles can be applied.

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` Balsar 06´ will today simulate a plane crash in Ibiza

Two Aviocar, a Puma helicopter and three boats participate.

The waters located to the East of the island of Ibiza will be today scene of the exercise ` Balsar 06´, in which a plane crash between a plane of the Spanish Army and a commercial airplane will be simulated. Two Aviocar D3 (one pertaining one to swarm 801 of the Armed Forces with base in the airport of Palma, the other of swarm 803 of Madrid) and a helicopter Puma HD19 will be the ones in charge to detect and to rescue from the air the survivors. As much the airplane as the helicopter belongs to the Spanish aerial means SAR (Search and Rescue) . In the exercise, that will be around the 10 hours, also they will participate to two Marine rescue boats of the coordinating center of Palma and a boat of the marine service of the Civil Guard. Both boats will collaborate with aerial means in the location and rescues. The Aviocar (that is equipped with a powerful radar in his flattened prow, call ` Duck nose´) will take off of the airport of Ibiza as soon as the signal of aid of the beacon of the airships is received, will locate the place of the collision and it will indicate it to the Puma, that by means of his crane it will eject to the pilot of the military plane (that hopefully has managed to throw himself with a parachute) and will evacuate to a boat or mainland. Previously, the Aviocar will send from its platform rafts and kits of rescue to help the survivors. Soon it will remain in the zone making the job of coordination with the helicopter, for example in the reception by radio. This practice will allow to evaluate the capacity of reaction and the coordination between the centers of emergencies and urgencies of Majorca, the Red Cross, the Civil Guard and Marine Rescue with the SAR. During year 2005, the SAR made 35 searches (24 in Aviocar, the rest in helicopter). Puma HD19 carried out a seven evacuations and 14 rescues that year. Each D3 has a crew composed by two pilots, a flight engineer, a radar operator and one or several finders. On the other hand, each HD19 Puma takes two pilots, a flight engineer (that handle the crane), a rescuer and a DUE (university graduate in infirmary).

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Baleària constructs a new boat to unite Dénia, Ibiza and Mallorca

The shipping Baleària has signed with Shipyards Barriers a contract of construction of new superferry projected and designed specifically for the port of Dénia, as well as for the present necessities of the traffics between Ibiza and the rest of the balearic islands and the central regions of the Valencian Community. The construction of this ship, that will be finished in 2008 in good condition and will have a speed on watch of 22 knots, supposes an investment of 93.173.532 euros, and will have a capacity for 1,200 passengers, who will have accomodation in staterooms or diverse types of halls. The act of the company took place in Dénia today and was carried out by the presidents of Baleària, Adolph Utor, and of Shipyards Barriers, Francisco González. Also it attended the ex- minister and industralist Abel Matutes native of ibiza, main shareholder of Baleària through his group of companies.

President of Shipyards Barreras assured that the new ship will suppose reference by its characteristics of sustainability and comfort for the passengers. González congratulated, of which a shipping leader in the Mediterranean had trusted Barriers for this important construction, that foreseeably there will follow others. The new boat has specifically been designed for the port of Dénia and the traffics with Ibiza and Majorca.

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