Opposition MP repeats call for tourism capacity study

Opposition MP Antoine Borg reiterated his call for a capacity study to determine Malta’s optimum level of tourists, but rubbished the Tourism Minister’s allegations that he wanted to cap the number of tourists that visit the islands.

“A capacity study was carried out in 2000 and had found that Malta’s infrastructure at the time could not accommodate any more tourists,” Borg said in a parliamentary reading on this year’s Budget. “Following that study, the government at the time had invested in its infrastructure and tourism exploded. The time has come for another capacity study.”  

However, he said that future investment in infrastructure must be balanced by similar investment in human resources.

In his short speech, he also criticised Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis for not fully explaining his plans to financially bring Air Malta back on its feet and to render Gozo a unique tourism destination.