There were an estimated at 265,701 inbound visitors during May, the National Statistics Office has said today, this was up by 1.3% on the May last year.

This NSO noted that of these, 233,139 inbound tourist trips were for holidays and 18,204 were for business.

The number of inbound tourists travelling from non-EU countries went up by 21.5% when compared to the corresponding month in 2018.

The total nights spent fell by 3.6% when compared to last year, surpassing 1.6 million nights. The NSO added that the largest share of guest nights (54.4%) was spent in collective accommodation establishments.

€203.5 million was the figure for total tourist expenditure in May, this was an increase of 3.3% on the same month last year.

For the first five months of 2019, inbound tourist trips amounted to 929,979, the NSO noted that this was an increase of 2.8% on last year. Total nights spent by inbound tourists went up by 1.6% surpassing 5.9 million nights.

During this same period, the total tourism expenditure was estimated at €648.1 million, up by 3.2% on last year. Total expenditure per capita stood at €697, an increase of 0.4% when compared to 2018, the NSO said.

Photograph by Alain Salvary

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