When Agatha Christie came to Mallorca in 1932, the island had already garnered a certain cachet among travellers who could afford to roam the world discovering paradises in those days.

The emerging “outsiders industry” (as it was called by those who recognised a strong economic future in it) that had already been launched years before, included the Fomento del Turismo de Mallorca organisation (founded in 1905), which saw to providing facilities for visitors on their trips. Excellent services were offered by the Gran Hotel (1903) in Palma and Hotel Formentor (1929) in the municipality of Pollensa, among other hotel establishments in different spots on the island, such as the Illa d'Or in the Port of Pollensa, where Agatha Christie lodged.

Agatha Christie was going to stay at Hotel Formentor during her stay in Mallorca, but remained in the Port of Pollensa in the end. As fate would have it, actor Peter Ustinov who played one of her most famous characters, Hercule Poirot, holidayed at Hotel Formentor for decades. The island of Mallorca provided its beautiful scenery as the backdrop for the film Evil Under the Sun (1982), in which Ustinov in the same role worked under Guy Hamilton’s orders.