Minimum wage of US$600 demanded for Maldivian resort workers

The average monthly salary for local resort workers is US$200-US$250.

Tourism lobby scuttled rules banning resorts from selling dollars

The rules were aimed at alleviating a persisting dollar shortage and tackling an entrenched black market.

Maldives resort owners alarmed by ‘falling revenues’

Expressing concern over declining revenues, MATI called on the government to increase destination marketing activities.

Maldives resort owners back bill criminalising tourism boycott call

“The most commonly used method to call for a boycott is social media. We have a lot of trouble selling our packages in tourism fairs and catalogues because of this,” said Ahmed Nazeer, secretary general of the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI). He told MPs that a law criminalising calls for a tourism boycott is long overdue.

“Worst fears” over Blackstone seaplane buyout now a reality, warns hotel group

Tourist facilities to be developed on local picnic island Kuda Bandos