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Malta offers: Come to us this summer, and receive a 200 euro gift
After recording a 80% drop in tourists following the corona, the Maltese government is coming out with an initiative that is supposed to bring visitors back this summer: book three nights at a hotel and receive up to 200 euros participation.
And what is the state of vaccines in the country?
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Ziv Reinstein
Sunday, 11 April 2021, 07:54 Updated: 09:00
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Arrive in the summer - and receive up to 200 euros for accommodation.
Malta Beach (Photo: ShutterStock, Shutterstock)
In order to revive its tourism industry and get ahead of competing destinations, and there are quite a few such as Greece and Cyprus, Malta plans to offer tourists who come to vacation there a sum of up to 200 euros each, provided they stay at least three nights on the island this summer.
According to the country's media, Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo announced the plan last weekend, in light of the expected removal of most of Corona's restrictions by June 1.
Tourists who book their summer holidays directly through the hotels themselves on the island, will be able to receive the gift in the form of money.
Data from the United Nations World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) show that the tourism industry is directly and indirectly responsible for more than 27 percent of Malta's economy, but the industry has been hit hard as a result of the corona plague.
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Valletta, the capital of Malta (Photo: ShutterStock)
Tourist numbers have dropped more than 80% in Corona
More than 2.7 million tourists came to Malta in 2019, but data has fallen more than 80 percent since the virus was discovered in the country in March 2020.
Bartolo also said that tourists who book accommodation in a five-star hotel will receive one hundred euros from the Malta Tourism Authority. The hotel itself, and a total participation of 200 euros.
In a similar arrangement, those who choose a four-star hotel will receive a total of 150 euros, while those who book accommodation in a three-star hotel will receive a participation of one hundred euros.
But that's not all: The grant will increase by 10 percent for orders made to small hotels on the island of Gozo, located just three miles north of the mainland and the capital city Valletta.
The program, amounting to 3.5 million euros, is part of the government's aid package Maltese EUR 20 million for tourism in the country.
2.7 million tourists arrived in Malta in 2019, pre-Corona (Photo: ShutterStock)
The highest percentage of vaccinated in the EU
"The program is designed to put Malta's hotels in a very competitive position when international tourism resumes," Bartolo said, and it is estimated it will benefit some 35,000 visitors who come to the Mediterranean country this summer.
Malta has the highest percentage of vaccinated people in the European Union, after at least one dose was given to 42 percent of the adult population.
The country is currently experiencing a sharp decline in new cases of the virus, with the positive test rate dropping to 2.6 per cent and the government urging the EU to include its green passport policy to facilitate tourism to Malta.
Bartolo also said that he also holds talks to encourage tourism between Malta and the UK, whose residents make up a third of the tourists in the former British colony.
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