Five year record for tourist arrivals in January
21 Feb 2010, 5:12 PM
Laura Restrepo Ortega
The President’s Office has reported that 67,478 tourists arrived in the Maldives during January 2010, making it country’s strongest January in five years.
Moosa Zameer, head of planning and statistics at the ministry of tourism, observed it was “the best [January] we have ever had.”
But Sim Mohamed from the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI) was less optimistic about the numbers, saying they are “a bit misleading” and “must be studied carefully”.
Although the number of arrivals under tourists visas may have risen, Sim said many of these tourists are only ‘surface arrivals’ – such as passengers on a cruise ship who arrive for a day or two, and then leave.
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