Maldives currently has a capacity of 1,231 tourist facilities which include 154 safari vessels, 881 guesthouses, 14 hotels and 182 resorts.
A guesthouse in the suburban extension of the capital city
Three more tourist accommodation establishments have resumed services to tourists.
This was revealed by the latest weekly statistics publicized by the Ministry of Tourism on Thursday.
As such, the ministry’s figures revealed that as of August 28, the number of operational tourist accommodation facilities across the Maldives sat at 1,223.
The guesthouses span across 118 islands of 20 atolls, with hotels operational in nine islands of eight atolls. 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.
Presently, a total of 62,778 tourist beds are in operation across these facilities, which include 174 resorts, 881 guesthouses, 14 hotels and 154 live-aboard vessels.
This means that two more guesthouses and one live-aboard vessel opened for services over the past week.
The beds operational across these facilities include 42,965 in resorts, 1,956 in hotels, 14,845 in guesthouses and 3,012 in live-aboard vessels.
Maldives currently has a capacity of 1,231 tourist facilities which include 154 safari vessels, 881 guesthouses, 14 hotels and 182 resorts. This means that of the total facility capacity, eight resorts have 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 came under former President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’s tourism development vision and policy to make tourism and its benefits accessible to the island communities as well.
