Malta Tourism Statistics for November 2026

Total expenditure reported by departing tourists, in million euro. It includes package holidays, air and sea fares and accommodation booked separately, and other spending such as shopping, food, excursions and entrance fees. In 2025 package spending was €926.7 million, separately paid fares €653.1 million, separately paid accommodation €884.5 million and other spending €1,440.1 million. Because international fares are included, the total is higher than travel receipts in the balance of payments (€2.89 billion in 2025, shown in the economy section) and is not directly comparable with spending figures for most other countries. 2026 so far: €3,450.5 million in January–September, €959 per tourist against €985 a year earlier.

Shares of 4.02 million inbound tourists in 2025, by main purpose of the trip. Other purposes include study, religious and health trips.

GDP at current prices was €24.7 billion in 2025 and services exports €27.4 billion. Travel receipts count what non-resident travellers spend on goods and services in Malta. Employment counts people aged 15–74 working in hotels, other accommodation, restaurants and bars, so it includes jobs serving residents. No official figure for tourism's total share of GDP is shown, as none for a recent year was found.

• Tourist, nights, expenditure, market, purpose and seasonality figures are for 2025 from the NSO Tourstat survey, as published in the December 2025 release (12 February 2026) and the selected indicators file updated on 30 October 2026. 2026 figures cover January–September (release of 30 October 2026) and may be revised. Collective accommodation figures are from the NSO file updated on 16 September 2026. GDP, balance of payments and employment figures come from Eurostat datasets updated in October 2026.
• Tourstat is a continuous sample survey in the departure lounge of Malta International Airport, where about one in twenty departing passengers is selected on sampled shifts, with sea departures added from ferry operator records. It counts trips by non-residents who stay at least one night, so a person who travels twice is counted twice. The figures are estimates with a margin of error. Airport passenger totals cannot be compared with them, as they include residents of Malta and transit passengers. Cruise passengers (870,560 in 2025, of whom 757,315 stayed on board and left on the same ship) are Transport Malta figures published by the NSO and are not part of the tourist total. In January–September 2026 there were 647,237 cruise passengers, 6.4% fewer than a year earlier.
• NSO total expenditure (€3,904.4 million in 2025) is what departing tourists report spending on their trip, including package holidays, separately booked air and sea fares and accommodation, and other spending. Balance of payments travel receipts (€2,894.2 million) count spending by non-resident travellers on goods and services in Malta and exclude international transport. All figures are nominal. The shares of GDP, services exports and employment are calculated on this page from Eurostat totals and are not official ratios.
• Collective accommodation statistics count guests and nights reported by hotels, guesthouses, hostels and tourist villages, including residents of Malta, so a tourist who stays in two hotels is counted twice and stays in holiday flats or with friends are not covered. Net bed occupancy relates nights to bed-places available. The Gozo and Comino figures come from the tourist survey and count inbound tourists who visited the islands during their trip, whether for the day or overnight.
• The average number of tourists present (50,767) and the ratio of 8.7 tourists per 100 residents are NSO estimates from nights spent at all forms of accommodation, set against the 2025 mid-year resident population of 581,244.

Primary sources

• NSO Malta: Inbound Tourism, December 2025 (NR 020/2026) : Inbound tourists, nights and total expenditure for 2025, by country of residence (Table 5) and expenditure category (Table 6), Gozo and Comino visitors, methodological notes; published 12 Feb 2026.
• NSO Malta: Inbound Tourism, September 2026 (NR 197/2026) : Inbound tourists, nights and total expenditure for January–September 2026 and September 2026; published 30 Oct 2026.
• NSO Malta: Inbound Tourism statistics, selected indicators : Annual and monthly inbound tourists, nights and expenditure 2001–2026, tourist profile 2010–2025 (purpose, markets, length of stay), type of accommodation, Gozo and Comino visitors by quarter; file updated 30 Oct 2026.
• NSO Malta: Cruise Passengers, Q4/2025 (NR 011/2026) : Cruise passenger traffic and cruise liner calls, January–December 2025 (Transport Malta data); published 21 Jan 2026. Annual series from the cruise passengers selected indicators file.
• NSO Malta: Cruise Passengers, Q3/2026 (NR 193/2026) : Cruise passenger traffic, January–September 2026; published 27 Oct 2026.
• NSO Malta: Collective Accommodation Establishments statistics, selected indicators : Guests, nights and net use of bed-places in hotels and other collective accommodation, Malta and Gozo regions, 2025 (file updated 16 Sep 2026); capacity in December 2025 from release NR 039/2026 of 9 Mar 2026.
• NSO Malta: Tourism Intensity, 2025 (NR 182/2026) : Average tourist population, effective population and tourism intensity by month and district, 2025; published 15 Oct 2026.
• Eurostat: Balance of payments by country, annual data (bop_c6_a) : Malta, travel credits 2019–2025 and services credits 2025, million euro, vis-a-vis rest of the world (dataset updated 2 Oct 2026).
• Eurostat: GDP and main components (nama_10_gdp) : Malta, gross domestic product at current prices, 2025: €24,664.0 million (dataset updated 22 Oct 2026).
• Eurostat: Employment by economic activity, Labour Force Survey (lfsa_egan2) : Malta, employed persons aged 15–74 in accommodation and food service activities (NACE I) and in total, 2025 (dataset updated 30 Oct 2026).