{"id":1694,"date":"2015-01-27T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2016-04-29T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T07:04:07","slug":"opinion-is-tourism-development-sustainable-for-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/01\/opinion-is-tourism-development-sustainable-for-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Is tourism development sustainable for Malta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Times of Malta)\u00a0<\/strong>Improving quality should drive the entire tourism sector at all levels, as it should drive all other areas of the economy. Residents also stand to benefit, not only tourists.\u00a0Let\u2019s not get stuck in the mentality of the old \u2018quantity versus quality\u2019 tug-of-war. Quality is not the opposite of quantity. There is no limit to improving quality, irrespective of numbers. Yet increasing the amount of tourists does have a limit. The size of this country can\u2019t cope with more.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sustainable Tourism Malta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20150125\/opinion\/The-tourism-tug-of-war.553215\" target=\"_blank\">Read whole article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no limit to improving quality, irrespective of numbers. Yet increasing the amount of tourists does have a limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,130,961],"tags":[193,190,53,191,192],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is tourism development sustainable for Malta?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is no limit to improving quality, irrespective of numbers. 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