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The origins of the all-inclusive holiday

Witness by BBC

Aug 7, 202610:49Society & Culture

Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort on the Spanish island of Majorca in the summer of 1950. Founded by the Belgian water polo player Gérard Blitz, Club Méditerranée offered a new kind of post-war holiday b...

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The origins of the all-inclusive holiday is an episode from Witness by BBC. Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort on the Spanish island of Majorca in the summer of 1950. Founded by the Belgian water polo player Gérard Blitz, Cl...

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Published Aug 7, 2026, 10:49 long, audio available.

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