Tourism cruise passengers increase by 21.5%
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- Cruise passenger traffic increases in May
- Cruise passengers increase by 22.8% in July
- Cruise passenger traffic decreased by 60.1 per cent in March
- Cruise passengers decline by 4.4% in August
- Cruise passenger traffic decreases by 1,530 persons in October
- Cruise passenger traffic rises by 47.9 percent in November
- Cruise passenger traffic up 21.4% in June 2008
- Total cruise passenger traffic for 2007 increases by 19.6 percent
- Maltese passenger departures rise by 19.7%
- Outbound Maltese tourists for January increase by 28 per cent
- Outbound tourists increased by 17.6% over the first five months of 2008
- Outbound passenger departures increase again
- Outbound Tourism increases by 5.1 per cent in December
- Outbound tourists up 6% during January - July
- Total cruise passenger traffic in February decreased by 18.9%
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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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