The salient points drawn for the Maltese Islands show that, in 2010 ...
... inbound overnight
visitors accounted for 98.8% of the total inbound visitor expenditure (cruise
passengers accounted for the rest of the expenditure).
... domestic tourism in Malta
accounted for 9.8% of total internal tourism expenditure.
... food and beverages
serving services, air and water passenger transport services and accommodation
services accounted for over two thirds of total internal tourism consumption.
... total internal tourism
consumption (inbound and domestic tourism consumption) accounted for 5.8% of
the total supply in the economy, one of the highest rates recorded in the EU.
... the consumption by
visitors from domestically produced gross output stood at 7.0%, but after
deducting intermediate consumption (to derive the Tourism direct Gross Value
Added or net output) the percentage goes down to 5.7%.
... Tourism direct Gross
Domestic Product, which adds taxes on products gathered from goods and services
consumed by tourists to the Tourism direct Gross Value Added, stood at
6.1%.
... jobs (employed and
self-employed) supported directly by tourism amounted to 17,086.
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