According to the latest Economic Update publicized by Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA), the country’s tourist arrivals grew by 70% in December 2021.<\/p>\n
The central bank’s statistics further confirmed that the tourist bed-nights in the last month of 2021 increased by 65% as well. Both improvements on tourist arrivals and bed-nights were compared with the corresponding month 2020.<\/p>\n
However, the growth is still below pre-pandemic levels while tourist arrivals rose to 164,284 in December 2021, registering a decline of 4% compared with 171,348 arrivals in December 2019.<\/p>\n
The annual increase in tourist arrivals reflected the “base effect of the slow pickup in tourist arrivals in the preceding year post border reopening, as well as a surge in arrivals from the main source markets during the peak season.”<\/p>\n
During the review month, the largest number of tourist arrivals were recorded from India followed by Russia, United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the operational bed capacity of the tourism industry had observed an increase of 10,966 beds when compared with the corresponding period in 2020. The occupancy rate rose to 62% in the review month from 48% in December of the year before that.<\/p>\n
In annual terms, the tourist arrivals in 2021 increased by 138% while total bed-nights of the industry observed an overall increase of 149%.<\/p>\n
Despite the strong growth in 2021 when compared with 2020, the tourist arrivals and bed-nights in annual terms still remain below pre-pandemic levels observed in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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