From Ms U. Vom Stein

As a person earning my living by bringing tourists to Malta, I have seen my income slowly shrinking for several years now. Throughout these years I never gave up hoping that some people in Malta would actually wake up.

I was shocked about the waste of money in the brand exercise. It would be such a cheap exercise to turn Malta into a paradise.

Hotel managers should get their act together and take care of the surrounding of their hotels instead of complaining. Why is it that a tourist cannot even leave the hotel without running the risk of breaking his leg because of the potholes in a pavement? Is it too much to ask hotel owners to keep in good condition a few square meters of pavement in front of their hotel?

The leisure industry should stop complaining and treat their guests as guests not milk them. As soon you leave Baystreet there is always an unbearable smell of drainage, which is damaging the tourist industry. This has been going on for several years now. If you follow the drainage river in front of Baystreet you will end up at a pipe leaving a leisure complex whose manager complains constantly about bad business. Hello?

As long the tourist industry itself just tries to make the fast buck while destroying the islands, every “Brand Manager” would just be an insult to the ordinary citizen.

When I arrived in Malta last Sunday, the airport was covered in black smoke coming from Safi. Welcome to Malta!

Why doesn’t Malta introduce environmental wardens and impose heavy fines for burning tyres, oil and so on?

Ulrike vom Stein

Bad Homburg

GERMANY