While 1.8 million tourists visited Malta in 2015, the period between January and April this year has seen an 11% rise over the same period last year, answers to a Parliamentary Question...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce believes that an increase in the minimum wage could actually bring about more hardship for lower income workers. Yesterday, this newspaper published a number of...

The Malta Tourism Authority budget estimates as proposed by Minister for Tourism Edward Zammit Lewis were passed in Parliament earlier this evening. During the winding up speech, the Tourism Minister...

Independent MP Marlene Farrugia calls for MTA to be a leader in terms of protecting the tourism we currently have as well as promoting real Maltese culture to tourists. At the end of her appeal to...

The government is looking into the possibility of splitting the 68 local council elections into two batches rather than three as things stand now, a government spokesman told The Malta Independent....

Kempinski Hotels and Resorts, the international company that manages the San Lawrenz Resort and Spa in Gozo, is planning to continue running this most upmarket resort in Gozo, The Malta Independent has learnt....

The Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises (GRTU) yesterday said the Health Ministry was imposing a total ban on smoking when, earlier this year, the Cabinet had decided that it would not have done so....

A 37 year-old woman from Swieqi was held up and robbed a few metres away from her house in Dris Street on Monday night....

Mariebelle Muscat The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seatbelts) Regulations regarding children and infants has been in force since 1 January....

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