One more tourist facility opens doors, operational capacity rises to 1,262

With one more tourist accommodation establishment opening its doors for services, the total number of operational tourist facilities across the Maldives has risen to 1,262.

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

As such, the ministry’s figures revealed that as of September 13, the number of operational tourist accommodation facilities across the Maldives sat at 1,262.

The guesthouses span across 119 islands of 20 atolls, with hotels operational in eight islands of eight atolls. 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 facility that resumed operations over the past week is a guesthouse on an island of Haa Alif atoll.

Presently, a total of 62,254 tourist beds are in operation across these facilities, which include 172 resorts, 914 guesthouses, 14 hotels and 162 live-aboard vessels.

The beds operational across these facilities include 42,159 in resorts, 1,940 in hotels, 14,974 in guesthouses and 3,181 in live-aboard vessels.

Maldives currently has a capacity of 1,267 tourist facilities which include 162 safari vessels, 914 guesthouses, 14 hotels and 177 resorts. This means that of the total facility capacity, five 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.