Quarter of tourists book Malta trips through Airbnb
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Over a quarter of those booking holidays in Malta use Airbnb-style services, dealing directly with individuals instead of hotels, official data shows. According to the European Union’s statistics office, 26 per cent of those who booked accommodation in MaltQuarter of tourists book Malta trips through Airbnb
Over a quarter of those booking holidays in Malta use Airbnb-style services, dealing directly with individuals instead of hotels, official data shows. According to the European Union’s statistics office, 26 per cent of those who booked accommodation in Malta last year did so via websites or mobile applications from another “private individual”, the second highest rate across Europe. The figure shot up from the previous year’s 20 per cent. Most of the individuals making the bookings in such a manner, the statistics office noted, used dedicated websites or applications but other sites or apps, including those of social networks, were also used. Among the EU member states, the country with the highest proportion of individuals arranging accommodation online through another private individual was Luxembourg (44 per cent), followed by Ireland and Malta (both 26 per cent). In contrast, the proportion was below 10 per cent in seven member states: Cyprus (three per cent), Czechia (five per cent), Latvia (seven per cent), Greece, Romania, Slovenia (all eight per cent) and Bulgaria (nine per cent). As the popularity of people providing accommodation to tourists has soared in Malta in... Read more