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From Valletta to Via Montenapoleone: How Milan’s Armani-Renaissance Fusion Inspires Malta’s Next Heritage Revolution
ByHot Malta 25 September 2025

**From Valletta to Via Montenapoleone: How Milan’s Armani-Renaissance Fusion Sparks a Maltese Rethink of Fashion and Heritage** Milan’s latest cultural cocktail—Giorgio Armani’s haute couture threaded through the rooms of the newly restored Palazzo Reale—has set Italian social media alight, but the ripples are being felt far beyond the Po Valley. In Malta, where baroque balconies…

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Foreign | Tourism

Malta Tourism on Edge After Yemen Drone Strike Hits Israeli Resort Town Eilat
ByHot Malta 24 September 2025

# Yemen Drone Attack on Israeli Resort Sends Shockwaves Through Malta’s Travel Community Valletta – When a Yemeni drone packed with shrapnel exploded beside a seaside swimming pool in Eilat on Sunday, the blast was felt 2,000 kilometres away in Malta. Within minutes, Maltese tour operators’ WhatsApp groups lit up: “Anyone with clients at the…

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Foreign | Tourism

Yemen Drone Strike on Israeli Resort Sends Shockwaves to Malta: Mediterranean Tourism Faces New Security Reality
ByHot Malta 24 September 2025

**Yemen Drone Attack on Israeli Resort Resonates in Malta: A Mediterranean Reflection on Regional Tensions** As dawn broke over the Red Sea resort of Eilat on Monday, the familiar rhythm of waves crashing against coral reefs was shattered by an explosive impact that would ripple across the Mediterranean. A drone launched from Yemen struck a…

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Community | Tourism

Malta to Palma, Newcastle & Glasgow: Ryanair’s €19.99 Winter Routes Unlock Weekender Dreams
ByHot Malta 24 September 2025

Palma, Newcastle, Glasgow: Ryanair’s New Winter Routes Put Malta on the European Weekender Map Valletta’s honey-coloured bastions are about to feel a chillier breeze. Ryanair’s freshly-unveiled winter timetable drops six new routes onto the Maltese tarmac, and three of them—Palma de Mallorca, Newcastle and Glasgow—are already sending WhatsApp groups into overdrive. From 29 October, islanders…

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Culture | Tourism

€15 for Caravaggio? Inside Valletta’s St John’s Co-Cathedral Museum Storm
ByHot Malta 24 September 2025

The Beauty and the Beast: St John’s Co-Cathedral Museum By [Hot Malta Staff] Valletta’s Republic Street hums with espresso steam and phone-light faces, but step through the limestone portal of St John’s Co-Cathedral and the city’s soundtrack drops to a reverent hush. Inside, the 16th-century knights’ church still preaches with gold leaf instead of words,…

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Local News | Tourism

Malta Hotel Housekeepers Arrested Over €350 Tourist Theft: Trust on the Line
ByHot Malta 22 September 2025

Housekeepers Held After Tourist’s Bag And €350 Vanish From St Julian’s Hotel By Hot Malta Staff | 09:45 • 17 June 2025 The trust that travellers place in Malta’s smiling “room-make-up” teams was shattered yesterday when two housekeepers were marched out of a sea-front St Julian’s hotel in hand-cuffs, accused of pocketing a guest’s designer…

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Local News | Tourism

Smoke-Free Sands: Golden Bay & Ramla l-Ħamra Limit Lighting Up to Tiny Zones
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

Golden Bay and Ramla l-Ħamra, two of Malta’s most cherished stretches of sand, are about to smell a lot less like an ashtray. The government will ring-fence small “smoking zones” on both beaches this summer, leaving the rest of the shoreline smoke-free for the first time in living memory. For locals who grew up with…

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Culture | Tourism

Il-Beżżul Bieżal Goes Viral: How Malta’s Skinniest Alley Became a Global Sensation Overnight
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

**Il-Beżżul Bieżel – September 21, 2025: The Day Valletta’s Narrowest Alley Went Viral** Valletta woke up on Sunday 21 September 2025 to find that its most famous pinch-point had become an overnight global celebrity. By 7 a.m. a queue already snaked from the corner of Triq il-Lvant past the old Opera House, phones raised like…

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Culture | Tourism

Popeye Village: How Malta Turned a Hollywood Flop into a €4 Million National Treasure
ByHot Malta 20 September 2025

**In Pictures: Postcards of Popeye Village at Anchor Bay – Malta’s Technicolour Ghost Town Turned National Treasure** Mellieħa locals still call it “Sweethaven,” the name painted on the clapboard façades that cling to Anchor Bay’s limestone cliffs like bright barnacles. Forty-four years after director Robert Altman wrapped his ill-fated musical “Popeye,” the ramshackle film set…

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Local News | Tourism

Malta Airport Delays: European Cyber Outage Disrupts Summer Flights & Village Festa Plans
ByHot Malta 20 September 2025

Malta International Airport on High Alert as European Cyber Outage Sends Shockwaves Through Summer Travel Plans By [Author Name] Valletta – While tourists sipped their morning kafè and bit into still-warm pastizzi at the airport’s Costa Coffee, an invisible storm was brewing across Europe’s digital skies. A “cyber-related disruption” at Swiss aviation IT supplier SITA…

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Business | Tourism

Malta opens first New York tourism office: ‘From Żabbar to Manhattan, we’re controlling our own story’
ByHot Malta 20 September 2025

**Malta plants its flag in Manhattan: MTA’s New York office signals bold bet on American travellers** Valletta’s trademark honey-stone will soon have an address on Madison Avenue. The Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) has quietly signed a 10-year lease on the 35th floor of a Art-Deco tower opposite Grand Central Station, opening its first wholly-owned North…

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Culture | Tourism

Malta Takes Center Stage: New York Premiere of Travel Documentary Signals Tourism Boom Ahead
ByHot Malta 19 September 2025

# Malta Travel Documentary Premieres in New York Ahead of US, Worldwide Broadcast **Valletta’s historic streets, Gozo’s rugged coastlines, and Malta’s azure waters lit up the silver screen in New York last night as “Malta: The Hidden Gem of the Mediterranean” premiered before an audience of travel influencers, diplomats, and media executives—a moment that could…

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