Category: Uncategorized

What better first impression of Malta than its very own Grand Harbour, aye? At least, that’s what around 63,600 tourists think, but who’s counting? Well, the NSO for one. The National Statistics Office has just published its results for the April-June period regarding cruise passenger traffic, and numbers are up, up, and up! Malta has […]

Increased environmental concern and awareness advanced by consumers, local inhabitants and authorities provoke innovative action within the tourism industry. Innovations are predominantly launched as part of defensive strategies, and the rationale for the tourist industry is to stay in business and to gain competitive advantages through innovative behavior by the tourism industry, and this ranges […]

There are about a million and one niches in the tourism sector. Historic tourism, festival tourism, business tourism. Each country has an array of niches to target and attract. Some, like Malta, are lucky enough to not have to work as hard. Our climate, history, language, cuisine, and landscapes are all already enough to entrance […]

Managing time is a big part of managing people. Like everything in life, shift work is a gentle balancing act and creating work schedules is not an easy task. It’s rare that everybody gets the shift they want, and if you manage hourly employees, you know how many issues can arise. Predicting busy times and […]

The EU today faces an extraordinary challenge that unless addressed seriously with short, medium and long-term solutions, could make it a consumer of growth generated elsewhere, rather than actively producing it. There is no other way to define the lack of human resources and skills mismatch than having reached the level of a crisis.  It […]

Well, you’re in luck! Malta’s Institute for Tourism Studies has officially launched its first-ever Masters Degree in International Hospitality Management to complement it’s already in-demand courses in the tourism and hospitality industries.  Available to both local and foreign students as of this October, the new MBA will engage students in the organization of large-scale social events, hotel […]

The Maltese Minister of Tourism, Konrad Mizzi, announced that he is sending an Air Malta emergency flight to Denmark to assist a group of Maltese school children who were left stranded after allegedly the private charter operator failed to provide a return flight. He stressed that this shows the importance that Air Malta has to […]

A city that never ceases to amaze one with its beauty, whether you’re visiting for the first or tenth time. Dubrovnik’s beauty is immeasurable, hence making it one of the most popular cities in Europe to visit at the moment.  It’s limestone streets, baroque buildings, it’s ancient city walls, and the Adriatic sea at its […]

Europe’s first underwater restaurant has opened its “underwater doors” with more than 7,000 diners already booked in to eat among the fish. True it’s not the first in the world, but it is in Europe!  This is no casual eatery – the full 18-course tasting menu with drinks costs up to 3,700 krone (£330) per […]

Internationally the aviation industry is under severe strain and Air Malta is no exception to this.    2019 has seen the demise of a number of European carriers, one of the latest being Iceland’s WOW airlines.  Wow’s bankruptcy hit not only the employees of the airline but had a considerable effect on Iceland’s economy.  In […]