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Survey MaltaMedia.com confirms drop in tourism in 2006From MaltaMedia.com Travel & Tourism Survey confirms drop in tourism in 2006 By MaltaMedia News Mar 15, 2007 - 6:00:36 PM On Thursday the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Associations (MHRA) released the BOV MHRA Hotel Survey by Deloitte for the last quarter of 2006. The results of the survey confirm that last year was not a particularly good year for the local industry and tourism in general. Tourists arrivals and guest night generation for the year were down by 4%, whilst total expenditure by tourists was also down by 1.2%. Notwithstanding the stronger performance reported in December the last quarter of the year still reported a 2% drop in arrivals and an 8.3% drop in guest night generation. The survey further revealed that arrivals for the year from Malta s core UK, German and French markets were 73,000 less than the previous year of which 10,500 were attributable to the last quarter. These losses were partially offset by the sustained increases from Italy which produced over 20,000 more arrivals in 2006. levels Occupancy for the year as a whole fell by 2 percentage points in both the 4-star and 5-star categories and by a crippling 9 percentage points in the 3-star category. Occupancy levels in December were encouragingly up and enabled hotel operators to at least halt the declining occupancy trends experienced in previous months. In turn, while addressing MHRA, GRTU director Vince Farrugia called for the resignation of the Minister for Tourism Francis Zammit Dimech. Mr.Farrugia said that the tourism industry was in deep crisis and the Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi should dismiss the Tourism Minister and take over this most important portfolio himself. Otherwise the PM would be insensitive to the dire situation. In June, former MHRA president Winston J. Zahra also had mentioned that people in office who do not achieve targets they set themselves should resign pointing his finger at the Minister and MTA chairman. On the other hand, Labour Leader Dr Alfred Sant has more than once called for the Tourism minister s resignation. Copyright 2007 by MaltaMedia.com

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