The overall number of tourists who visited Malta in July is almost 90% of the inbound tourists that visited the island in July of 2019 before the covid-19 pandemic hit the world revealed the NSO.
The study also revealed that in July of 2022 there were approximately 273,646 people that visited Malta. 247,029 of these tourists visited the country for holiday purposes whilst only 11,092 tourists came for business purposes.
Malta also attracted more young tourists than it did back in 2019 (106.9%) and way fewer older tourists, specifically over-65’s (75.7 per cent). The largest age group among all the tourists were those under 24 years old.
French, Italian and German residents made up 37.3% of total inbound tourists. 86.3% of the tourists spent their time in Malta in rented accommodations and total tourist expenditure came up to almost €275 million. The largest number of non-EU tourists came from the United Kingdom.
Total tourist expenditure is also catching up to those pre-pandemic days as it reached 96.5 percent of the value of money before 2020.
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