More Maltese travelling abroad

Nearly 60,000 Maltese passengers departed by air and sea in the first three months of the year, an increase of over a quarter since the same period last year. The National Statistics Office put the figure at 59,329, an increase of 27.1 per cent. Of...

Nearly 60,000 Maltese passengers departed by air and sea in the first three months of the year, an increase of over a quarter since the same period last year.

The National Statistics Office put the figure at 59,329, an increase of 27.1 per cent. Of these, 86.1 per cent travelled to EU destinations, with the most visited countries being Italy and the UK. Male outbound passengers exceeded female ones, the former accounting for 59.6 per cent of the total.

Nearly half the passengers were aged between 25 and 44, followed by those in the 45 to 64 age bracket.

In March alone, outbound passengers were estimated at 23,888, an increase of 23.6 per cent over the same month in 2007.

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