8.5% increase in Maltese travellers in November
More Maltese travelled last November than in the same month last year, the National Statistics Office said.
It said that 21,512 Maltese residents departed by air and sea in November, an increase of 8.5 percent over the same month in 2007. Of these, 18,489 travelled to EU destinations, the most popular being the UK and Italy. 3,023 travelled to non-EU destinations. 93.7 percent travelled by air.
Most outbound tourists were in the 25-44 age bracket.
The NSO said that 271,874 Maltese departed by air and sea between January and November last year. This was a 6.8 percent increase over the corresponding period last year. 85.6 percent travelled to EU destinations with the most visited countries being Italy and the UK.
For the cumulative period, male outbound passengers exceeded female ones, the former accounting for 58 percent of the total.
The largest proportion of outbound passengers - 45.8 percent, were aged between 25 and 44. These were followed by those in the 45 to 64 age bracket, who accounted for 37.4 percent of total outbound tourists.
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Karl Abela
Jan 14th 2009, 17:48
lgalea read this: more travellers in connection to the EU = not more expenditure for our country but = to more investment in Malta.
lgalea is on a all out mission to ridicule anything that has got to do with the government or with the EU.....and he does that at any cost... even if that means that he posts ridiculous arguments such as 'aha its bad weather today, you see what happens when you join the EU'
I do not know lgalea but his writing reflects an older generation mentality which really needs to be forgotten otherwise we just cant move on.
M. Catania
Jan 14th 2009, 17:27
@lgalea
Why when there is an increase in outbound travel, you always ask on the eu related travel? Call a spade a spade and be objective!!
Paul Savona
Jan 14th 2009, 15:45
I too would like to know the figures that Igalea is asking for. Only so the "issue" that is trying to be raised can be removed. How much can it possibly be, realistically less than 1%??
Igalea I read a lot of what you post, and a lot of the time you have a valid point (not always right in my opinion but valid), however I think you are trying too hard to connect something untoward that has no baring on this article. You should have waited for an article about EU Spending.
lgalea
Jan 14th 2009, 15:07
Can we have the number of employees that have traveled on eu related business so that we can get an idea of how much money is being spent in connection with the eu and the real number of real travelers who go on holiday or on business?
s.grech
Jan 14th 2009, 14:29
can someone tell me how many of fhese travellers flew with low cost airlines ? I guess most of them.s