2013: 1.5 million tourist milestone to be achieved

Early this year, the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) predicted that summer 2013 would be 'the perfect summer' in terms of tourist arrivals, and according to figures released by the National Statistics Office, showing an increase of 11.6 per cent of departing tourists in June and 4.2 per cent in July, it would appear they were right.