A successful January for the tourism industry
According to the reports by the Ministry of Tourism, the tourist arrival rate for January 2023 was up by 30.9 percent with 178,159 visitors by February 2023.
source: visitmaldives
The success of Maldives tourism is no secret. As one of the most well-known tourist destinations in the world, Maldives is popular among visitors for the country’s natural beauty, white sandy beaches and attractive tropical life.
Since tourism was established in the country, Maldives has been putting in an enormous effort towards developing this sector, which has become fruitful today. Tourism contributes significantly directly and indirectly to the country’s GDP and has become the biggest sector supporting the economy and providing a livelihood for many locals and foreigners alike.
With each passing year, the Maldives tourism industry has been putting in the effort to keep up with the latest trends and develop on par with other major tourist destinations around the globe. Even with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maldivian tourism industry figured out ways to continue supporting visitor arrivals while taking all the precautionary measures in order to avoid infection rates.
The way Maldives overcame and worked around the pandemic was note-worthy as the country’s tourism industry was quick to recover relative to other destinations. Following the pandemic, Maldives has been showing major progress, bringing the industry to new heights.
2022 marked a great year for the industry as visitor arrival rates improved, and the Maldives achieved some major awards as a destination while resorts also took home several awards in travel award ceremonies. 2022 also marked the year that the Government announced the plans to increase the goods and services tax (GST).
According to the reports by the Ministry of Tourism, the tourist arrival rate for January 2023 was up by 30.9 percent with 178,159 visitors arriving in the country by February 2023. Additionally, so far into the month of February, this increase remains unchanged as statistics show a 28.3 percent increase with 5,623 arrivals for February this year.
So far in 2023, the top three visitor markets are Russia, India and Italy, with China finally making a return at number 8 after a three-year hiatus following the COVID-19 pandemic.
