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THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER 2020 • ISSUE 87
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Malta to get
more funding
for health,
research and
educational
programmes
Maltese
researchers to
apply innovative
cooling
technology
for vaccine
transportation
PAUL COCKS
GOVERNMENT will continue of-
fering its support to the tourism
sector with the aim of returning to
more normal levels of operation in
the shortest possible term, tourism
minister Clayton Bartolo told Busi-
nessToday.
With most operators in the indus-
try suffering heavy financial losses
due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
many depend solely on government
assistance to avoid shutting down
permanently or firing staff.
Amongst the hardest hit are guest-
houses, which have suffered irreper-
able losses despite creative attempts
to realign business in order to attract
guests.
From reduced prices to long-let packages: with
no tourists or foreign workers to fill rooms as
COVID-19 rages unabated, guesthouse owners
are pinning their hopes on the vaccine and
continued government financial assistance
Guesthouse owners pinning survival
on vaccine and government assistance
Tourism minister Clayton Bartolo
