Maltese travel up 1.3% in April

Outbound tourism in April reached 19,047, an increase of 1.3 percent over the same month in 2007, the NSO said this morning. Of these, 88.3 percent travelled by air and 16,279 travelled to EU destinations, the most popular being Italy and the...

Outbound tourism in April reached 19,047, an increase of 1.3 percent over the same month in 2007, the NSO said this morning. Of these, 88.3 percent travelled by air and 16,279 travelled to EU destinations, the most popular being Italy and the UK.

Between January and April, the number of Maltese departing by air and sea amounted to 78,380, an increase of 19.7 percent over the corresponding period last year. Of these, 85.9 per cent travelled to EU destinations; the most visited countries were Italy and the UK.

During this period, male outbound passengers exceeded female ones, the former accounting for 60.5 percent of the total.

The largest proportion of outbound passengers - 48.7 per cent – comprised passengers aged between 25 and 44 years, followed by those in the 45 to 64 age bracket who accounted for 37.9 per cent of total Maltese travellers.

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