 Posted: Sat 3:58, 21 May 2011 Post subject: Putting Malta Hotels Back On The Maps |
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| ta missed some of her own government's passenger targets in 2005, yet a recent visit by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh resulted in four days of affirmative medium coverage in the island's most important mall - the United Kingdom - and too in over 50 additional countries attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, including Canada and Australia.
The Queen began her official visit to Malta before she opened the conference,Air Jordan After Game, and was warmhearted welcomed along friendly islanders. Malta was governed by the British for a hundred and fifty years, and became independent in 1964. But the island has maintained numerous British specifics, including driving aboard the left, and British guests list for almost half of the island's tourists. The George Cross ranks with the Victoria Cross for Britain's maximum award for bravery - and Malta was awarded the Cross in 1942 by King George VI for the island's resistance to German ventures to occupy the isle, with Malta being below virtually constant onset from June 1940. As well as the challenge of drawing tourists away from other Mediterranean islands like Mallorca and Menorca, Malta has had to face the annexed challenge of fashionable holiday destinations in the former Eastern Bloc opening up, such as Bulgaria and Croatia, which tend to be cheaper. Brighter Future But where the Maltese tourist board has singularly failed to market the island's appeal to the hunk holiday market with anybody degree of success in recent annuals, the Queen's visit has come at the right period for hotels and holiday companies hoping for a good 2006. Tribune Properties, a British based corporation specialising in abroad properties including Malta comment: 'Malta is no a tall precedence on the list of holiday destinations for many British people compared to the Spanish Costas, Canary and Balearic Islands. The visit of the Queen showed Malta in a quite positive light, and hopefully the island's tourist officials will be competent to capitalise on the tumble and increase hotel and holiday bookings in the months before. Given Malta's quondam log of promotion although whether 2006 sees one increase in visitors it will be antagonism of the official promotions, and no because of /> More nice newspaper for the Malta vacation manufacture came in October with the bulletin that low price airlines had been been given the right to fly to the island. 'This ambition assist either the hotel and attribute industries in Malta' add Tribune. 'With the cost of getting to the island coming down,Jordan Melo, Malta should see her share of the short linger European holiday market addition substantially, increasing employment locally and benefitting the economic overall'. |
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