Four more tourist facilities resume operations

Four more tourist accommodation establishments have resumed services to visitors.

This was revealed by the latest daily statistics publicized by the Ministry of Tourism on Monday.

As such, the ministry’s figures revealed that as of December 29, the number of operational tourist accommodation facilities across the Maldives sat at 1,271. The guesthouses span across 117 islands of 20 atolls, with hotels operational on nine 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.

Presently, a total of 63,248 tourist beds are in operation across these facilities, which include 172 resorts, 929 guesthouses, 15 hotels, and 155 live-aboard vessels.

This means that four more guesthouses resumed services over the past week.

The beds operational across these facilities include 42,547 in resorts, 2,028 in hotels, 15,621 in guesthouses, and 3,052 in live-aboard vessels.

Maldives currently has a capacity of 1,281 tourist facilities, which include 155 safari vessels, 929 guesthouses, 14 hotels, and 183 resorts. This means that of the total facility capacity, 11 resorts and one hotel have yet to resume operations.