Air Malta’s Senior Executive, Assistant to Chairman and CEO, John Zammit has contributed a chapter to the recently launched book by Ashgate Publishing entitled, Aviation and Tourism – Implications for Leisure Travel (ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-7187-9).

The book, edited by Anne Graham, Andreas Papatheodorou and Peter Forsyth, world renowned experts in this field, is a new arrival to the international aviation and tourism literature. It deals with the close and complex relationships which exist between aviation and tourism, particularly when leisure travel is concerned.

The editors invited 26 distinguished experts in different specialist areas to contribute to this book. Mr Zammit wrote chapter 10 entitled ‘From a National Airline to an EU Leisure-Based Carrier’. The chapter brings out the intricate relationship between the development of Air Malta, the Maltese economy and in particular Malta’s tourism industry. Against this background it shows the metamorphosis Air Malta has been going through in its role to serve the country of which it bears its name.

John Zammit is an economics graduate from the University of Malta. He has 31 years of work experience at Air Malta. In 2003 he earned an Aviation MBA, graduating with distinction from the Danube University, Krems, Vienna, Austria. John is also a regular speaker at the annual Aircraft Finance & Commercial Aviation Forum in Geneva.