{"id":3143,"date":"2022-04-07T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbt.mv\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T06:43:00","slug":"tourist-arrivals-to-maldives-increase-by-54-in-feb-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbt.mv\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"Tourist arrivals to Maldives increase by 54% in Feb 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) recently confirmed that the tourist arrivals to the country increased by 54% in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Maldivian central bank, in addition to the increment in tourist arrivals, the tourist bed nights had increased by 45% by the end of the review month. Both tourist arrivals and bed nights observed increment when compared with February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The total tourist arrivals in February reached 149,008, which was still a 12% decline compared to the pre-pandemic levels in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>MMA noted that the annual increase in tourist arrivals was mainly due to the increment in the arrivals from major source markets which include; Russia, United Kingdom, India, Germany, and Italy &#8211; in that order &#8211; in the top five ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The operational bed capacity rose by 8,869 beds in February 2022 when compared with the same month last year while occupancy rate rose to 73% in the review month compared to 60% in the corresponding month of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, tourist arrivals to the Maldives observed an annual increment of 49% while bed nights registered an annual increase of 39%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) recently confirmed that the tourist arrivals to the country increased by 54% in February 2022. According to the Maldivian central bank, in addition to the increment in tourist arrivals, the tourist bed nights had increased by 45% by the end of the review month. Both tourist arrivals and bed nights observed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2429],"tags":[1326,1356,1496,1507,2126],"class_list":{"0":"post-3143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-maldives-monetary-authority","9":"tag-maldives-tourism","10":"tag-ministry-of-tourism","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-tourist-arrivals"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tourist arrivals to Maldives increase by 54% in Feb 2022 - Maldives Business Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mbt.mv\/?p=3143\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tourist arrivals to Maldives increase by 54% in Feb 2022 - Maldives Business Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) recently confirmed that the tourist arrivals to the country increased by 54% in February 2022. 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