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Malta Air Show Boosts Hotel Bookings

Malta is set for her annual international air show to be the best ever this year, with tens of thousands of islanders and tourists attending the event.

Making the event a truly international one, as well as the Armed Forces of Malta participating, the French, Italian, Dutch Swiss and Spanish will all have planes and crew in attendance, plus the British Royal Air Force and US Air Force.

Among the planes taking part are two Alpha jets from France, one of which will be doing an aerial display, six F-16′s with two Dutch F-16′s flying, and from the RAF two Harriers and two Tornados, with one of the Harriers expected to do an aerial demonstration.

Ticket prices for the Saturday or Sunday are low compared to many international air shows, ensuring access is available to many of the Maltese population as well as enthusiasts and veterans who travel from around Europe for the weekend. Prices this year are 4.5 Maltese (around US $12) for either day, with public transport to the show available throughout the island.

With the tourist season beginning to slow down, many of the Malta hotels see the air show as a tourist attraction and organise transport to and from the event.

An advantage of holding the show in the second half of September is that the Malta weather can almost be assured to be good, with the all important clear skies allowing viewing of the participating planes.

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The air show is seen by many in the Malta holidays industry as evidence that Malta can produce events which will not only prove an attraction to those tourists already on the island, but also as part of a package of other attractions to draw new tourists to the island.

The first half of the year has been a disappointing one for the holiday to Malta industry, with a drop in tourists for the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year.

Commenting on the recently released figures showing a drop in visitors, one independent travel guide for Malta http://www.yourmalta.com believes that events like the air show should be promoted more.

‘Malta needs good news’, they say, ‘and if potential tourists could see on a Malta map of events quality displays such as the air show it would be a good reason to visit the island.

The island needs to compete against other destinations in the Mediterranean, but while most of them are seeing an increase in visitor numbers, Malta is showing a drop’.

Many hoteliers and others in the holiday industry are hoping that cheap flights to Malta might become a reality in the near future. There has been talk of low cost carriers from the UK and Ireland providing services to the island for some time now, but no deals have been struck yet.

Unemployment on the island is high at over 8 per cent, and tourism is a major employer, but many feel that the government is reluctant to see the national carrier Air Malta face potentially subsidised competiton. But by doing nothing the island faces the danger of the whole tourist industry suffering.

‘Malta can be a high quality destination with low cost fares’, comment the travel guide. ‘We already have good accommodation like the Qawra Palace Hotel, so potentially we can do it’.

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Cuba-hostels.com online provides confirmed reservations for rooms in Hotels and Casas Particulares in the whole Cuba, as well as in Cheap Hotels in Havana, Varadero and other places of the island. All the reservations are processed by the maximum safety, in real-time and they are reserves guaranteed for our tourists.

All the rooms, apartments and private houses offered for Cuba-hostels.com are provided with a license to do this activity, which from 1997, the Cuban government allows that proprietors of private house or apartments should rent rooms, in the style of Bed and Breakfast, usual in other countries. They are called Casas Particulares, because are in private houses. Since then, thousands of Cuban families offer accommodation to the tourists who want to visit Cuba of a different form.

The offers change very much from one house to other one: a few other simple times have a private bath, air conditioning, a patio, a balcony or the use of the family court, sometimes a typical Spanish colonial house with high roofs and ancient furniture, rooms in buildings placed in full historical center of the cities with major tourist attraction. In any case the familiar ambience and the gentleness of the Cuban family, it compensates any possible disadvantage. But in all the cases the entire safety and cleanliness plays a vital part in the ambience of coexistence and of hospitality. The prices change from 15 CUC to 35 CUC depending on the type of house, on the locality or on the period. The most expensive rooms are the placed ones in the city of Havana.

The majority of the proprietors of private house offer breakfast (approximately 3 CUC) and meals or dinners for a price between 7 CUC and 10 CUC as the offer. All the Cuban who offer accommodation is obliging and kind and they will help you in everything what is to his scope: tourist information of interest about the zone, to call to a taxi, to recommend to you a local restaurant (paladares) or another private house in another village that is in your itinerary.

Lodge at private house is the best way of discovering the real nature of Cuba and cuban people, since contacts and conversations can be established more easily in the intimacy of a hearth, which in a big hotel complex, only suitable for not Cuban tourists, where the Cuban reality shines for his absence.

ACE Adventure Resort Vacation Bookings see ‘Massive’ Surge Following Heavy Winter

ACE Adventure Resort Vacation Bookings see ‘Massive’ Surge Following Heavy Winter
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