Malta: Visitors Are Producing Double the Waste Produced by Maltese
According to the recent report provided by Malta today, this emerges from estimates of the Malta Tourism Authority to national waste agency Wasteserv in the recent studies related to the development of a new facility to process organic waste, AtoZSerwisPlus.mt reports.
Such figures, according to the report, are based on an annual increase of 1.5 per cent between 2025 and 2029.
In addition, another study in this regard by Deloitte reveals that Malta would have to attract a total of 4.7 million travellers over the next six years in order to ensure that its current stock of existing and planned hotel beds can enjoy full occupancy.
However, based on an average stay of a total of seven nights, the impact of a total of 3 million tourists anticipated in the following years, more specifically in 2030, will be the equivalent of a total of 69,000 people who live in Malta on a permanent basis. In addition, it also marks a significant increase in Malta’s seasonal population, from 52,983 registered in 2019 before the spread of the Coronavirus and its new variants, after which the tourism industry diminished to 16,000 seasonal population.
This shows that by 2030, the seasonal population in Malta would be more than twice of St Paul’s Bay which currently has a population of a total of 32,000 and greater than that of the entire western area, which includes Attard, ?a?-?ebbu?, Rabat and Siggiewi.
Due to the difficulties caused by the spread of the Coronavirus and its new variants, Malta welcomed fewer visitors in the last two years due to the COVID-related restrictions; however, with the easing of the restrictions, authorities in Malta have registered a larger number of tourists, while the government is continuously working in order to bring to the country a larger number of visitors.
The figures provided previously by the National Statistics Office revealed that a total of 243,956 people visited Malta in June alone, spending nearly 1.6 million nights in this country.
According to the data provided by the Maltese National Statistics Office (NSO), half of the tourists who travelled to Malta for a period between April and June stayed in four-star hotels.
