The continued restrictions with travel because of the Covid-19 pandemic means that the number of inbound visitors to the Maltese Islands is still in decline.

The National Statistics Office has said that for October, the number of inbound visitors were estimated at 46,914, this is a decrease of 83.7% when compared to last year.

41,929 of these inbound tourist trips were for holidays while a further 2,966 were made for business.

Similar to September, those inbound tourists coming from Germany were the most popular, with a share of 27.6% of the total inbound tourists.

The NSO noted that when compared to October last year, total nights spent went down by 78.6% amounting to 403,261 nights.

The largest share of guest nights (46.2%) was spent in collective accommodation establishments, the NSO said.

Total tourist expenditure was estimated at almost €35.9 million, this was a decrease of 84.5% over last year.

Inbound tourist trips for the first ten months of this year amounted to 630,690, a decrease of 73.9% per cent over the same period in 2019. Total nights spent by inbound tourists reached nearly 4.8 million, this was a drop of 72.1% when compared to the same period of last year.

The NSO said that total tourism expenditure reached nearly €428.7 million, 78.4% less than that recorded during the same period in 2019.

Total expenditure per capita stood at €680, this was a decrease of 17.3% per cent when compared to the same period last year.

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