Plane from Düsseldorf, Germany: the First German tourists landed on Mallorca

With the applause received employee of the first German tourists in the Hotels of Playa de Palma. At the airport of Palma it looked at times as if a Journalist

Plane from Düsseldorf, Germany: the First German tourists landed on Mallorca

With the applause received employee of the first German tourists in the Hotels of Playa de Palma. At the airport of Palma it looked at times as if a Journalist would be on each of the 189 passengers. Hardly the plane from Düsseldorf was landed about eleven o'clock with a slight delay, fought the first camera teams behind the barriers, about the German first impressions out of you before you had even left the airport. There was supposed to land in the afternoon, a second derecognised machine from Frankfurt.

Hans-Christian Rößler

Political correspondent for the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb, with its headquarters in Madrid.

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On Board the aircraft, as the have on Mallorca holiday rentals were. Shortly thereafter, the Balearic Islands on messenger at noon, the entire political leadership, in order to present the pilot project in a hotel on the beach, among them diebalearische regional President Francina Armengol, the mayor of Palma and the Tui management Board member, Sebastian noble, who still hopes to a good season: "It is the objective of the Germans," said Sebastian noble.

In Mallorca you want to win back as quickly as possible the confidence of the tourists. For the economy of the Inselist tourism is important for survival: More than 75,000 inhabitants have already lost their jobs, 155.000 are in short-time work. After the outbreak of the pandemic had closed off the Balearic Islands almost completely and more quickly than other regions in Spain, the Virus is in get a handle on. On the island group, defendant 227 of a total of more than 27,000 dead. This success does not want to regional risk President Armengol through the Opening. "We are a safe destination," she said.

Date Of Update: 15 June 2020, 16:20