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Article: Tourism - Our men in Ibiza.(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2000
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Clubbing on Ibiza has become the favourite summer holiday for Britain's youth. The Spanish have got rich from it, while the behaviour of drunken revellers has become increasingly controversial back home
IT IS 2am at Ibiza airport, and yet another planeload of British youths is coming through customs. They are nearly all wearing standard-issue clubbing gear, floppy sunhats, baggy jeans and carrying ghetto blasters, some of which would only just fit into the overhead luggage compartments. At this time of the morning, apart from the odd plane from Germany, all the incoming flights are from Britain--part of the annual summer invasion.
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