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Tourism cruise passengers increase by 21.5%

Tourism cruise passengers January - April 2008
In April 2008, cruise passenger traffic in Malta comprised 45,924 persons, an increase of 21.5 per cent over the same month in 2007.

April 2008

Total cruise passenger traffic amounted to 45,924, an increase of 8,137 passengers over the same month in 2007. Embarkations from and landings in Malta in this month stood at 844 and 758 persons respectively.

January-April 2008

Total cruise passenger traffic in Malta amounted to 56,747, a decrease of 1.6 per cent over the same period last year. Same-day visitors from EU countries accounted for 84.6 per cent of total traffic, the main markets being Italy, Germany and Spain.

On a gender basis, male passengers exceeded female ones by 11.7 per cent. The largest proportion of passengers - 39.7 per cent - comprised persons aged between 60 and 79 years, followed by those in the 40-59 age bracket who accounted for 26.5 per cent of the total.

There were 47 cruise liner calls in April, bringing the total of the first four months of 2008 to 53.


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