Thursday, Aug 11, 2022

/The French market grows by 41%/ *689,145 passengers travelled through Malta International Airport in July, marking a recovery of 86.3 per cent of pre-pandemic traffic.* MIA said on Tuesday that sea...

Thursday, Aug 11, 2022

* * *Bank of Valletta has built a long-term partnership with the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA). Through this alliance BOV supports MHRA and its members by sharing industry insights, ...

Tuesday, Aug 09, 2022

* * *Some 7.7 million tourists came to Turkey’s Mediterranean touristic hot spot of Antalya by air between Jan. 1 and Aug. 5, according to data released by the city’s governorate.* The number of for...

Tuesday, Aug 09, 2022

* * *Greece will be welcoming one million travelers every week this period of summer, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said.* In July, travel arrivals exceeded 900,000 per week, he said, and added t...

Tuesday, Aug 09, 2022

/Planned EU aviation tax is unjust for Maltese travellers and Maltese tourism/ *The past two years have been the most challenging for the tourism sector since it started out as an economic activity.* ...

Thursday, Aug 04, 2022

/Fastest recovery was among younger tourists/ *Tourism arrivals in June reached 243,956, which was 87.7 per cent of the arrivals in June 2019, before COVID-19 struck, the National Statistics Office sa...

Wednesday, Aug 03, 2022

/Malta, Cyprus and Ireland are resisting the EU's proposal/ *Air Malta warned on Wednesday that a plan to impose a tax on aviation fuel, currently being considered by the EU, will not bring about a mo...

Friday, Jul 29, 2022

* * *Istanbul Airport saw the most passenger traffic in all of Europe in June, welcoming just shy of 6 million passengers, according to data released by a European airport trade association on Wednesd...

Friday, Jul 29, 2022

* * *An "exceptional" marine heat wave is gripping the western Mediterranean with surface temperatures up to 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than average, according to experts contac...

Thursday, Jul 28, 2022

* * *The FIJET Academy For Young Journalists was officially opened on Monday in Tangier, Morocco, under the theme "The challenges of tourism in the post-pandemic world", with the participation of Moro...

Thursday, Jul 28, 2022

COVID uncertainty in Malta blamed for major drops *Malta's airport connectivity is currently the lowest compared to other countries in the Mediterranean, and which are often considered the island's di...

Thursday, Jul 28, 2022

* * *The European Union’s highest court reiterated this month that feta cheese was Greek after it found that Denmark was violating EU law by allowing its dairies to export white cheese as feta.* Denma...