Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:47 pm
I figure the diffusion should look about like it looks in Greece, just weighted according to the tourists per inhabitant number.
Greece is the only other Mediterranean Euro country that doesn't share a land border with any other Euro country and should thus give best comparison.
Depending on the source there are apparently some 13 to 16 million tourists per year in Greece. If we count it according to the lower number, 13 million, it means that they have about 1,2 tourists per inhabitant.
This number seems to coincide quite well with the Greek coin diffusion: Some 50% foreign, some 50% local. Source: eurodiffusie.nl, which has sadly low sample amounts but where the results seem to be quite similar month after month anyway.
Malta seems to receive some 1,2 million tourists per year. For a country with 400 000 inhabitants that means about three tourists per inhabitant.
So, since the tourist-to-local-ratio is 3:1 as opposed to the Greek 1:1, we could estimate that some 75% of Maltese coins will be foreign.
However, I would like to underline that I am not educated to do maths like this and I might have made some crucial mistake. In any case, for what I know, this number should give a somewhat correct estimation of how easy it will be finding a Maltese coin in Malta. The majority will be from elsewhere, but I still wouldn't call Maltese coins "a rarity" in Malta.
Greece is the only other Mediterranean Euro country that doesn't share a land border with any other Euro country and should thus give best comparison.
Depending on the source there are apparently some 13 to 16 million tourists per year in Greece. If we count it according to the lower number, 13 million, it means that they have about 1,2 tourists per inhabitant.
This number seems to coincide quite well with the Greek coin diffusion: Some 50% foreign, some 50% local. Source: eurodiffusie.nl, which has sadly low sample amounts but where the results seem to be quite similar month after month anyway.
Malta seems to receive some 1,2 million tourists per year. For a country with 400 000 inhabitants that means about three tourists per inhabitant.
So, since the tourist-to-local-ratio is 3:1 as opposed to the Greek 1:1, we could estimate that some 75% of Maltese coins will be foreign.
However, I would like to underline that I am not educated to do maths like this and I might have made some crucial mistake. In any case, for what I know, this number should give a somewhat correct estimation of how easy it will be finding a Maltese coin in Malta. The majority will be from elsewhere, but I still wouldn't call Maltese coins "a rarity" in Malta.
