Over the last few years, tourism investment has developed qualitatively rather than quantitatively. This has resulted in an improved customer service, better natural environment, a more personalised and diversified product, international standard golf courses and sports facilities, and cultural attractions.

During the 1990s, the Maltese government allocated substantial funding towards the restoration and professional presentation of the UNESCO World Heritage Site the Hypogeum (a large underground temple), Caravaggio's Beheading of St John, the fortifications of Mdina (old capital), Valletta and the Three Cities (where the Knights of St John first established their base in Malta), and various buildings in Valletta. In the coming years, various conservation and restoration projects will be terminated. At the same time more funds are being invested in the management and upkeep of the numerous World Heritage Sites found in Malta.

The Maltese Islands are ideal for expatriates to settle in for more than one reason. In adfdition to the favourable tax benefits offered by the Maltese government, it is a country with European business traditions and practices, where English is spoken by practically everybody, from the bank manager to the taxi-driver.

Easy, quick, low-cost and regular airline links to major European and Mediterranean cities make Malta an ideal country to live in. Malta is a stone's throw away from most European countries. The islands are culturally European and climate-wise Mediterranean. The fact that Malta's time band is in sync with CET offers another advantage.