In January, total arrivals in collective accommodation establishments stood at 59,928, up by 7.5 per cent when compared to last year. Total nights also increased by 6.3 per cent to 364,442 nights.

The figures released by the National Statistics Office today also show that in Gozo, total arrivals and nights amounted to 2,260 and 6,366 respectively – increases of 15.5 per cent and 12.3 per cent over the corresponding period last year. The average length of stay stood at 2.8 nights and the net use of bed-places was calculated at 16.3 per cent.

During the month under review, the majority of guest nights in Malta and Gozo were spent in 4-star hotel accommodation. These amounted to 183,543 nights, or 50.4 per cent of the total. Guest nights in 3-star hotels reached 73,811 nights, an increase of 29.3 per cent over 2012.

Overall, the average length of stay stood at 6.1 nights, practically unchanged when compared to January 2012. The net use of bed-places during the reference month stood at 33.9 per cent – an increase of 1.7 percentage points when compared to the corresponding month last year.

Collective accommodation establishments in Malta registered increases of 7.2 and 6.3 per cent in the number of arrivals and nights spent respectively. The occupancy rate also rose by 1.6 percentage points when compared to the previous year, to 34.5 per cent.

On a national level, there were 131 collective accommodation establishments operating during January, with a net capacity of 16,023 bedrooms and 35,036 bed-places. The average number of beds per room stood at 2.2. Bed-places in Malta accounted for 96.0 per cent of the total.

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