Operational capacity of tourist facilities pushed to 1,201

The operational capacity of tourist accommodation establishments across the Maldives has been pushed to 1,201.

This was revealed by the latest weekly statistics publicized by the Ministry of Tourism on Friday.

As such, a total of 1,201 tourist accommodation facilities are currently operational across Maldives, with a total of 59,497 tourist beds.

Operational facilities include 167 resorts, 863 guesthouses, 13 hotels and 158 live-aboard vessels.

This means that one resort, one guesthouse and one safari vessel resumed services to tourists over the past week.

The total number of operational beds span across resorts, hotels, guesthouses and live-aboard vessels including 40,835 in resorts, 1,616 in hotels, 14,128 in guesthouses and 2,918 in live-aboard vessels.

Maldives currently has a capacity of 1,205 tourist facilities which include 158 safari vessels, 876 guesthouses and hotels and 171 resorts. This means that of the total facility capacity, four resorts are yet to resume operations.

The ministry introduced Homestay in the Maldives in January, since then a few more homestay facilities have been opened. This comes under the President’s tourism development vision and policy to make tourism and its benefits accessible to the island communities as well.

After the Covid 19 pandemic Maldives re-opened borders on 15 July 2020 nearly four months since borders were closed, and at first, resorts and live-aboard vessels were given the green light to begin operations. Guesthouses outside of the Greater Malé Region were permitted to resume operations on 15 October 2020. Authorities allowed the reopening of guesthouses in the capital region on 14 December 2020.