The Mediterranean Pulse: the whole region, one frame, every edition.
A recurring reading of the whole region on one frame: where the airlines put their seats, who actually came, what travellers search for, and what AI assistants recommend. The instruments the industry used to read demand have gone dark; this is what we built to replace them.
Updated 23 August 2026
8 destinations
Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta
285.7M seats
scheduled for summer 2026, by corridor and month
20+ sources
feeding the arrivals record
4 surfaces
schedules, arrivals, search and AI answers, read against each other
The readings
Reading 1 · August 2026
The Mediterranean Pulse: The Board
The instrument panel of Mediterranean tourism: the airline schedule and the arrivals record for the whole region, on one page, in a shape that repeats every edition so the columns stay comparable across time.
Reading 2 · August 2026
The Cyprus October Gamble: What Airline Capacity Says About Hotel Demand in 2026
Airlines cut the island's August and bet big on October. What that reveals about how hotel demand now works.
Reading 3 · August 2026
How Full Is the Prophecy Flying? The Airline Metric That Predicts Hotel Demand
Route conversion: the metric the airlines steer by, and the number that decides Cyprus's October.
Reading 4 · August 2026
The Demand That Vanished
Search volume fell 8–31% across the UK, German, Swedish and Polish markets while arrivals rose. Search has become a one-way instrument: it still registers loss, but no longer registers gain.
Reading 5 · August 2026
What Each Country Types When It Dreams of the Mediterranean
Poles type “all inclusive”, Brits type villas, Germans type beaches: the same destination is a different product in every language.
Reading 6 · August 2026
The Mediterranean, According to AI
520 AI answers in five languages: three countries take 77% of the opening slots, AI's favourite destination is recommended at 1.9× its real demand, and the two demand giants get talked down.
Coming next in the Pulse
Next
The series closes where the layers meet: the destinations winning on every instrument at once, and the ones whose maps do not agree with each other.
September edition
The board refreshed with the first autumn data, as the October bet begins to get scored.
Free to cite, with attribution
Figures, charts and the underlying corridor data are open for reuse with a link back. The method, sources and limitations for each reading are stated in full alongside it.
See your own hotel inside this picture.
Five minutes to set up. One market free for 14 days.