The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) has expressed its satisfaction about the reported growth in arrivals in April 2013 said that summer arrivals are looking very promising and potentially Malta could finish with another record number of arrivals.

MHRA said that it is working closely with the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA), Air Malta, the Malta International Airport (MIA) and other stake holders so that accessibility keeps on improving and strengthened over the winter and shoulder months. “MHRA is also working with MTA to enable MHRA members to be more proactive in marketing jointly Malta for niche tourism markets.”

Tony Zahra the MHRA President, stated that, “MHRA notes with satisfaction the focus of the various stakeholders including the Ministry of Tourism, MTA, MIA and Air Malta to ensure that tourism grows in spite of the economic turmoil that is being experienced in a good number of our source markets. It is therefore clear that when all the stakeholders combine their efforts together the results are very positive.”

Mr Zahra said that the good news was that the hotel industry was seeing increases in room revenue but the bad news was the increased revenue continued to be eaten up by increased overheads. “Together with government MHRA are exploring ways and means of decreasing overheads especially where these are government induced. “

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