Operational capacity of tourist facilities drops to 1,234
One safari vessel halted operations over the past week
One safari vessel halted operations over the past week
The total number of tourist accommodation establishments currently operational across the Maldives, has dropped to 1,234.
This was revealed by the latest weekly statistics publicized by the Ministry of Tourism on Thursday.
As such, the ministry’s figures revealed that the number of operational tourist accommodation facilities across the Maldives dropped to 1,234 over the course of a week, with one liveaboard vessel halting operations over the past week.
Presently, a total of 60,576 tourist beds are in operation across these facilities, which include 170 resorts, 899 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.
As of May 10, 68 percent of the bed capacity is occupied by resorts, followed by 24 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 41,249 in resorts, 1,640 in hotels, 14,732 in guesthouses and 2,959 in live-aboard vessels.
Maldives currently has a capacity of 1,238 tourist facilities which include 152 safari vessels, 899 guesthouses, 13 hotels and 174 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.
