Maldives tourist arrivals flat in August
The government has been aiming for 1.5 million annual tourist arrivals for several years.
25 Sep 2018, 9:00 AM
Tourist arrivals to the Maldives were flat in August, with just a two percent increase from the same period last year, according to official figures from the Tourism Ministry.
There were 123,992 visitors to the Maldives last month, compared to August 2017 when there were 121,310.
There was a 3.5 percent drop in the number of visitors from the Asia-Pacific region, but a rise of 10.6 percent in the number of holidaymakers from Europe.
The statistics said that 972,839 people had visited the Maldives by the end of August 2018.
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