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10 Apr 2021 | Sat 14:59
Maldives will mark 50 years since the tourism industry’s inception, in 2022, which is to be celebrated as the golden year of tourism
Maldives will mark 50 years since the tourism industry’s inception, in 2022, which is to be celebrated as the golden year of tourism
Velana Airport
Tourist arrivals for April 2021
Tourist arrival count so far in April, crosses 32,000-mark
 
India remains the top source market for Maldives tourism
 
703 tourist facilities nationwide are currently operational with 46,451 beds
 
Maldives will mark 50 years since the tourism industry’s inception, in 2022, which is to be celebrated as the golden year of tourism

Maldives has welcomed 32,130 tourists so far in April.

According to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Tourism on Saturday, this is 26.5 percent less than the amount of tourist arrivals recorded during the same period in 2019.

The country has observed a total of 330,700 tourist arrivals thus far this year.

While visitors are staying for an average of eight days, the number of tourist arrivals recorded the same period last year was slightly higher. As such, it was 13.6 percent more with 382,762 visitors having been recorded by April 9 last year.

Tourism Ministry also shared that an average of 3,340 tourists were visiting the Maldives every day based on their statistics.

Maldives celebrated over 100,000 tourist arrivals during March, the highest monthly arrivals recorded since borders were reopened for international travel. As such, 109,585 tourist visited Maldives during March.

During January 2021, Maldives welcomed 92,103. The number escalated to 96,882 in the month that followed and Maldives welcomed 32,130 visitors within the first nine days of April.

The highest arrivals this past week was recorded on April 2 at 5,052 visitors.

India contributes 23 percent of the arrival rate with 74,673 visitors by April 7, which is a step up after having been ranked second before the Covid-19 pandemic began sweeping across the globe. India is followed by Russia making up 21 percent with 67,996 arrivals by Wednesday and third comes Ukraine, which jumped from the 23rd rank according to pre-Covid stats and currently contributes six percent of tourist arrivals. 18,396 visitors arrived from Ukraine by Wednesday.

Germany, Kazakhstan, Romania, United States of America, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and France, are also considered some of the biggest tourist markets for the Maldives.

By 7 April, arrivals from these countries have been recorded at:

  • Germany contributing five percent with 16,566 arrivals
  • Kazakhstan contributing 4.3 percent with 13,949 arrivals
  • Romania contributing three percent with 9,621 arrivals
  • America contributing 2.9 percent with 9,294 arrivals
  • UK contributing 2.8 percent with 9,054 arrivals
  • Czech Republic contributing 2.5 percent with 8,019 arrivals
  • France contributing 2.4 percent with 7,853 arrivals

703 tourist facilities nationwide are currently operational with 46,451 beds out of which 34,952 are being operated in 151 resorts, 7,342 beds in 404 guesthouses as well as 2,699 beds in 137 liveaboard vessels. 11 hotels are also in operation with 1,458 beds.

The ministry boasts increasing tourist arrivals, which were snail-paced into the beginning of the country’s tourism-revival journey. As such, an optimistic tourism ministry revealed that the source markets are recovering, with “impressive” results.

The country saw a record-breaking 1,702,887 tourist arrivals during 2019 and an optimistic government set a vision to break the record with two million arrivals in 2020, which was foiled by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, due to which authorities halted issuing on-arrival visas on March 27 that year.

Nearly four months later, Maldives tourism began reviving and from July 15, arrivals have been increasing steadily over the past couple of months. Maldives was able to exceed its new target of 545,000, by the end of December 2020 and aims to welcome 1.5 million tourist arrivals this ongoing year.

Maldives will mark 50 years since the tourism industry’s inception, in 2022, which is to be celebrated as the golden year of tourism in Maldives.

Last updated at: 4 months ago
Reviewed by: Imad Latheef
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