Small change in bed stock

Eight hotels and guest houses having 1,624 tourist beds closed last year while four hotels with 1,330 beds opened, Tourism Minister Francis Zammit Dimech said in Parliament yesterday. Three new hotels and an extension of another, with a total of 1,770...

Eight hotels and guest houses having 1,624 tourist beds closed last year while four hotels with 1,330 beds opened, Tourism Minister Francis Zammit Dimech said in Parliament yesterday.

Three new hotels and an extension of another, with a total of 1,770 beds, all five star, are due to come on stream this year.

The minister said that as of January 1, 2006, there were a total of 39,431 tourism beds, of which 32,540 were in hotels, 5,477 in aparthotels, 926 in guest houses and 488 in hostels.

The hotels which closed down last year were the Mgarr (five-star), Mistra Village and Lapsi (four-star), Hal Ferh and Caprice (two-star) and the Miranda and Haven guest houses.

The new hotels were the Radisson Golden Sands (five-star), the four-star Cavalieri, and the three-star Gorganis and Downtown.

The information was requested by Labour MP Leo Brincat.

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