Author: Mohamed Reehaan
The Chief Executive Officer of Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has praised the dedication, commitment and hard work of the company’s staff. Moreover, while speaking at the special ceremony held on Sunday evening to commemorate the company’s 41st anniversary the MTCC front-man credited the company’s sustainability to the diligence and perseverance of its dedicated employees. Furthermore, he had acknowledged the continued support and commitment of the company’s employees in ensuring MTCC’s collective vision and objectives are met. In his speech, he had noted on the employees’ round-the-clock working approach to maximize roll-out of urban development projects across various islands…
Qatar Airways celebrates 20 years of flying to the Maldives and a special celebratory event was held at Velana International Airport (VIA) to commemorate the milestone. The internationally lauded airline hailing from Qatar first commenced its direct flight operations to the Maldives in 2001. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Qatar Airways’ operations to the island nation, the first flight of the airline landing at VIA on Sunday, 19th December was welcomed with a water salute and a traditional drum-fare (Boduberu) event. Moreover, the celebrations were held by Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) in collaboration with the airline. Furthermore, Maldives…
The national airline of the island nation, Maldivian will add two ATR 72-600s to its fleet in order to compensate for influx of travelers amid the tourism peak season and New Year’s peak. As such, two ATR 72-600 airplanes will be wet-leased; meaning the aircraft will be leased with an operating crew in order to adjust the airline’s operations amid the busy tourism season. Meanwhile, Maldivian presently operates with 10 De Havilland Dash-8s, out of which only 6 Dash-8s have been actively in operation for the past few days. Furthermore, the airline reports that the inactive 4 aircraft will be…
Maldives has once again secured World’s Leading Destination title along with other accolades at the World Travel Awards 2021. Furthermore, the win was announced at the WTA 2021 ceremony held virtually on 16th December, Thursday of last week. Speaking about latest achievement, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) Mr. Thoyyib Mohamed expressed his gratitude to everyone who voted for the island nation at the awarding ceremony. Moreover, the MMPRC front-man noted the contributions of the Government of Maldives, Ministry of Tourism along with other tourism industry affiliated authorities, associations and NGOs…
According to the latest statistical updates from Maldives Ministry of Tourism the daily arrival average of tourists has increased to 4,970 as of 08th December 2021. Moreover, the total tourist arrivals from January until 08th December stood at 1,197,409 while the arrivals from 01st until 09th December stands at 39,756. The arrival count for the first eight days of December is still 0.5% below pre-pandemic levels. As such, in 2019 during the corresponding period the arrival count stood at 39,950. However, arrival count in the review period observed a growth of 141.7% when compared with the same period in 2020…
According to the latest updates from Ministry of Finance on weekly fiscal developments, the state had spent a year-to-date total of MVR30,531.2 million (MVR30.5 billion). Moreover, revenues to state observe a slow-down in weekly terms and reached just MVR18,113. 9 million (MVR18.1 billion). Expenditure composition confirms that 71% of the total had been spent on recurrent needs and 29% on capital expenses. On the other hand, revenue composition confirms 72% came from tax sources and 28% came from non-tax sources. Meanwhile, similar to all the previous weeks the strongest revenue sources to the state include TGST, GGST and BPT. Furthermore,…
According to Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (MIRA) the state collected a revenue of MVR3.90 billion during the third quarter of 2021. Moreover, this marks a 21.1% increment when compared with the same quarter in 2020 and a 5.8% improvement over initial projections for the review quarter. Furthermore, MIRA notes that the increase in the quarterly revenue is mainly due to the surge in the collections of TGST, Tourism Land Rent collection along with other tourism related revenues such as Green Tax and airport fees and charges. In addition to this, resorts with the highest market-share had also reported significant increases…
Top-end holiday destination, LUX* South Ari Atoll Resort & Villas announces their “Once in a Lifetime” festive program with an exciting Moulin Rouge themed New Year’s Eve countdown celebratory event. Moreover, the New Year’s Eve countdown will begin from 22 December 2021 and last until 07 January 2022. LUX* South Ari Atoll confirms that the range of festive season activities include painting workshops with local talents to a special “Last Sunset Cruise of the Year” trip on a traditional Maldivian Dhoni. Other activities include Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony which will commence on the same date as the New Year’s Eve…
Visit Maldives launches a new outdoor advertising campaign with Mediamond in Italy to increase brand presence for the Maldives. Moreover, the joint campaign will be held in two phases for a duration of three weeks in December 2021 and the first week of January 2022. The campaign aims to further promote Maldives as a safe haven for travelers as well as increase the brand awareness and presence in the Italian market. In addition to this, the campaign aims to re-establish the island nation as a top-of-the-mind destination ahead of the winter holidays. Furthermore, the campaign includes digital advertising of the…
Dusit International, one of the leading hotel and property development companies of Thailand partners up with World Animal Protection to promote responsible wildlife protection. As such, the partnership will enhance in the creation of new guidelines and policies that will help in limiting the impact of Dusit’s operations on natural habitats “by promoting responsible wildlife tourism in each of its destinations.” Moreover, Dusit hopes the new partnership will allow the hotelier group to delight the guests with authentic, localized experiences “while empowering its employees and customers to be wildlife-friendly travelers and advocates.” Dusit International signed the partnership with World Animal…