Mario Dingli (‘Tourist product’, April 5) seems to have found the time to scribble about the amount of pizzerias mushrooming across the Maltese islands. Tourists, like those he describes, are welcome as much as those he called “big spenders”.

He should have said that, during the summer season, all hotels, big or small, are jampacked with holidaymakers. The main attractions in Malta are the sun and the sea. For the time being, Malta is not the place for the wealthy but, sooner or later, it will be.

I used to have two restaurants, together with two partners of mine, both in Valletta. I had all sorts of guests French, English, Italian and so on. They all enjoyed their pizza or steak. The beauty of owning a restaurant is when you have guests we called ‘returns’.

Judging by his letter, I am not sure whether the correspondent wants to be spiteful to the government or to me.

This is a Times of Malta print opinion piece