{"id":654468,"date":"2025-12-25T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654468\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:44:11","slug":"mallorca-holiday-boost-and-the-survey-says-spain-is-number-one-for-the-over-55s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654468\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallorca holiday boost – And the survey says: Spain is number one for the over 55s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas Day for some is one of reflection, if you are nor drunk<\/strong> or have heart burn and for the over 55s, who are in the prime of their lives despite what some people might think, Spain<\/a> has been named as the favourite holiday<\/a> spot for British travellers aged 55 and over, according to new research.
The study found that older UK holidaymakers made a 6.2 million trips to Spain in 2024, spending \u00a35.27million along the way.<\/p>\n

That makes Spain the clear winner for both visitor numbers and economic impact among this age group. Short, affordable flights, year-round sun in some areas, and a relaxed pace of life that suits longer getaways all play a part in the appeal. Walkable towns and solid public transport also make getting around a breeze for older couples.<\/p>\n

And, this time of year is the one of the most popular times for overseas travel, particularly for those with young families taking advantage of the two week break and spending quality family time together with someone else doing the cooking. Holidaymakers are looking for winter sun or a traditional snowy Christmas. ABTA members are reporting strong sales for mainland Spain, the Canary Islands, Portugal and Turkey. Other popular winter sun destinations include Palma, Dubai and Sharm El Sheik.<\/p>\n

And rcently, the president of the Balearics<\/a>, Marga Prohens, welcomed the fact that tourism is growing \u2018like never before\u2019<\/strong> during the mid and low season months in the Balearics. She said that this is a \u2018change in trend\u2019 brought about by the commitment to cultural and sports tourism, which is allowing the \u201cpeaks\u201d in tourist numbers to be \u2018shifted from the high season to other months\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018We are focusing on culture, we want it to be an attraction for those who visit us beyond the summer<\/a> months. This strategy is working. Containment in summer, with growth below 1%, and growing like never before in the mid and low season months.<\/p>\n

\u2018We want to lead the transformation of tourism throughout Europe, to be a region that is seen as a success story in sustainability and regenerative tourism. We are, perhaps, the first example of an economy that wants to move forward<\/strong> not from recession or crisis but from success, from a model that generates wealth and employment,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas Day for some is one of reflection, if you are nor drunk or have heart burn and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2834,9980,2000,299,12967,2837,2843,2838,2839,69564,200167,104,14299,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-654468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-balearics","9":"tag-british-tourists","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-flight","13":"tag-holiday","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-majorca","16":"tag-mallorca","17":"tag-mallorca-beaches","18":"tag-mallorcachristmas","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-summer","21":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}