March 31, 2004
Published by ibiza-hotels.com

IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Population growth
  • New Ibiza airfares
  • Madrid bombing follow-up
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    April 15 ,2004

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FOREIGN RESIDENT POPULATION EXPLODES 22.5% IN ONE YEAR"
 


According to the NATIONAL INSTITUTE of STATISTICS, the foreign resident population of Ibiza and Formentera has grown by 22.5% in just one year.

This represents a record growth for foreign residents, over half of whom (10,000) hail from European Coomon Market countries, and over 5,000 from North and South Americaa.

NEW-More frequent and economical flights to-from Ibiza!!
 The low-cost airline company EasyJet announced yesterday that beginning MAY 28, they have scheduled TWO daily flights from and to LONDON-IBIZA. Easy Jet, the largest low-cost airline in Europe also announced an additional daily flight beginning on JUNE 3.
The London airport is GATWICK. Tickets for this flights are now available online at EasyJet.com.
This announcement is seen as a great help for Ibiza, which has always suffered because of flight shortages. It will be especially appreciated by international visitors to the island, as well as for all Ibiza travelers who desire the independance of online booking without the intervention or necessity to buy Tour Operator packages.

These flights start at 55.98 Euros (Round Trip) !


When Ibiza's street artists go bad........
 ROLON SUR WRECK follow-up:

The Balearia ship 'ROLON SUR' has been salvaged from the rocks off Illetas without environmental damage. However the ship has been determined to be unrecoverable as the entire front bulb and the hull's bow has been twisted out of place.....it has been towed to Ibiza harbour for repairs enough to make it navegable to the mainland where it will be
junked for scrap metal.



'The Al Qaida connection..'


The arrests in the terrorist bombing attacks of the Atocha train station of Madrid has risen to 20 persons...almost all of them Morrocan Islamic fundamentalists,with Al Qaida connections.

A contry house near Mardid has been found with fingerprints of many of the arrested, and unused blasting caps of the type used in the bombing attacks and found in the stolen and abandoned truck found in Madrid. The truck contained many fingerprints matching those of the country house and those of the leading suspect Jamal Zougam, suspected of being the leader and organizer of the attack.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS BLOWS IT: 

Berlin Travel Fair:
Veteran 58 yr. old, Michael Douglas, and part time resideint of Mallorca, contracted by the Balearic Government to promote the islands at the major travel fairs of Europe (for several million Euros!), when asked about Ibiza, said.."I am too old for Ibiza, but my son loves it because he wants to become a DJ."...this brief and unacceptable description of Ibiza, so infuriated Island officials..especially when compared to his lengthy eulogy of Mallorca, that local representatives are demanding an investigation as to what part of his multi-million Euro contract is being paid by Ibiza residents.

Ibiza-hotels is the ONLY IBIZA ACCOMMODATIONS PORTAL on the WWW THAT does not use THIRD PARTY RESERVATION ENGINE SOFTWARE.
"We wrote our own program, because we didn´t think it is right to share a clients PERSONAL INFORMATION with ANYBODY...except the HOTEL where
the reservation is being made."......explained Bob, "....because there is absolutely no guarantee that this information will not be abused, for example by....selling the e-mail addresses to spammers, or because of security leaks in the third party systems...and the more servers this information passes through or gets stored on, the more possibility for abuse."