The National Statistics Office has revealed that nearly 84% of the tourists that visited the islands of Gozo and Comino in 2021 were in fact Maltese. It was also revealed that the total number of tourists visiting the Maltese sister islands stood at around 435,907 tourists.
Unlike Gozo and Comino where the majority of tourism was domestic, the tourists visiting Malta were 97.5% inbound tourists meaning tourists from other countries.
The total amount of tourists visiting Malta amounted to 962,556 an increase of 47% from 2020. This massive increase was obviously seen because of the lifting of travel restrictions due to Covid-19.
Despite the large increase, tourist arrivals were still a far cry from the 2.7 million tourists that entered Malta back in 2019.
Domestic tourism increased a lot last year due to the desire to travel by the Maltese but the worry to travel abroad due to Covid-19 issues. This meant that the expenditure spent on luxuries by Maltese families in Gozo and Comino resulted in €80.3 million being generated. This was an increase of over 35% over 2020.
The number of Gozitan residents who travelled to Malta nearly doubled from 2020 t0 2021 from almost 12,00o to 24,309 visitors in 2021. Their expenditure reached around €3.7 million which also was an increase from the €2 million spent in 2020.
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