€100 vouchers to attract divers and sports tourists to Malta

Tourists who arrive in Malta for diving activities will each be gifted a €100 voucher while organisers of sports events will receive €100 for every foreign participant, the Tourism Minister said on Friday.
The vouchers will be handed out as part of two new schemes aimed at niche tourism markets as part of the government’s business recovery plan for the tourism industry.
The first is a €100 voucher scheme aimed at divers, with a budget of €750,000. Travellers can apply for the vouchers through the Malta Tourism Authority and they will be dispensed via email.

The vouchers can be spent at diving shops listed on the MTA website.
With the aim of targeting a maximum of 7,500 tourists, Bartolo said the scheme would indirectly generate a further €12 million in economic activity, with around €3 million generated in Gozo alone.
The second scheme, allocated a €1.5 million budget, is aimed at organisers of sport events, who will be eligible for a €100 voucher for every foreign participant who arrives from overseas.
The scheme will open on June 1 to practitioners of sports activities accredited by Sports Malta.
Earlier this month Bartolo launched a similar scheme for tourists booking summer...