This means that three more guesthouses resumed operations over the past week
Guesthouses in the capital's suburbs
A total of 1,216 tourist facilities are currently operational across the Maldives.
This was revealed by the latest weekly statistics publicized by the Ministry of Tourism on Friday.
As such, the ministry’s statistics revealed that the number of operational tourist accommodation facilities across the Maldives has risen to 1,216 over the course of a week.
Presently, a total of 59,924 tourist beds are in operation across these facilities, which include 168 resorts, 883 guesthouses, 13 hotels and 152 live-aboard vessels. The guesthouses span across 117 islands of 20 atolls, with hotels operational in seven islands of seven atolls.
This means that three more guesthouses resumed operations over the past week. These include on in Baa atoll, one in Vaavu atoll and one in Fuvahmulah City.
As of February 15, 69 percent of the bed capacity is occupied by resorts, followed by 23 percent occupied by guesthouses, five percent by safari vessels and three percent by hotels.
The total number of operational beds span across resorts, hotels, guesthouses, and live-aboard vessels including 41,049 in resorts, 1,640 in hotels, 14,282 in guesthouses and 2,953 in live-aboard vessels.
Maldives currently has a capacity of 1,220 tourist facilities which include 152 safari vessels, 883 guesthouses, 13 hotels and 172 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 2022, since then a few more homestay facilities have been opened. This comes under President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’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.
