The English language teaching market in Malta has remained buoyant in the summer of 2023, but challenges remain to maintain numbers, according to the country’s language association.

International students who travel to Malta this summer will receive a payment of €10 for every night that they spend in the country.

A survey from FELTOM and Deloitte has shown that Malta's student arrivals from January to September this year fell to 15,361 compared to 67,884 in 2019.

On paper, 2020 looked like a fantastic year that was going to break all records. Unfortunately it broke our records, but not in the way we wanted

ELT schools in Malta are facing a loss of millions of euros due to the coronavirus outbreak, a report has found. But stakeholders in the country fear losses will increase as the situation worsens.

The first six months of 2019 brought a slight decrease in student numbers for the Maltese ELT industry, while student weeks increased.

After an unprecedented 13.6% rise in ELT student numbers in Malta in 2017, latest figures have shown that the country's sector success somewhat flatlined in 2018 with a 0.1% decrease on the previous total.

Student arrivals and student weeks were down during the busiest month of the year for Malta’s ELT industry, the FELTOM ELT Barometer carried out by Deloitte revealed.