{"id":9782,"date":"2024-06-26T19:37:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbt.mv\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2024-06-26T19:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T14:37:34","slug":"over-993k-tourists-fly-to-the-maldives-less-than-7k-to-hit-one-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbt.mv\/?p=9782","title":{"rendered":"Over 993k tourists fly to the Maldives; less than 7k to hit one million!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maldives has attracted a total of 993,328 tourists to the island nation as of June 25, 2024 &#8211; indicating the leading tourist destination four years in a row, is less than 7,000 to hit the first milestone in tourist arrivals for the current year.<\/p>\n<p>As the Maldives is expected to welcome it&#8217;s millionth arrival soon, the country&#8217;s year-to-date tourist arrivals has observed a 9.3% increment. By the same period last year, tourist arrivals to the country was at 904,983 exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Tourist arrivals to the Maldives exclusively in the month of June (from 01st to 25th) has gone up by 5.6% compared to a year back in the same month. For the same duration in June 2023, Maldives had welcomed 95,739 tourists; whereas this year, the count is 101,083.<\/p>\n<h2>Tourist Arrivals &#8211; Monthly<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>January &#8211; 192,385 | 11.5%+<\/li>\n<li>February &#8211; 217,392 | 22.2%+<\/li>\n<li>March &#8211; 194,227 | 11.9%+<\/li>\n<li>April &#8211; 168,366 | 2.4%+<\/li>\n<li>May &#8211; 119,875 | -0.9%<\/li>\n<li>June (01st-25th) &#8211; 101,083 | 5.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, arrivals from two markets have already exceeded beyond the 100,000th-mark &#8211; China and Russia, in that order. 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