Maldives Celebrates Touch Down of 100,000th Tourist Arriving in March 2021

Monday 29th of March 2021

And they are here! The 100,000th tourist of 2021 has arrived in the Maldives today. Onboard Emirates Airlines, Hana Mohamed Ahmed Kamel Mostafa from Egypt is here with her better half, to enjoy a well-deserved getaway in the mesmerizing Intercontinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort.

Welcomed by members of the Ministry of Tourism, Visit Maldives and stakeholders, the couple shared their joy of finally reaching the destination amidst gloomy weather this morning.

Nestled in Raa Atoll, Intercontinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort is an exclusive private island getaway offering the epitome fo the finest luxuries in Maldives. Blessed with a location as breathtaking as the unexplored Raa Atoll, it is also at the doorstep of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of Baa Atoll, giving guests uninterrupted access to a myriad of marine life in our lagoon including a unique manta ray sanctuary.

Since borders reopened in July of 2020, the Maldives has been implementing stringent safety measures assuring the safety and wellbeing of guests travelling to the dreamy destination in the global pandemic. In this context, the one-island-one-resort establishments on secluded islands that are naturally social distances in the archipelago also have deployed internationally certified hygiene measures in the resorts.

Exploring wander lusters can take a breather knowing that over 14,800 tourism industry frontliners have been vaccinated against COVID19. As of now, 29 scheduled and chartered airlines are fluying into the country, having flown close to 284,000 tourists as of March 27, 2021. The destination is observing slow but steady growth, averaging daily arrivals of roughly 3500 tourists in a single day. A record-breaking maximum of 5516 tourists arrived on March 26, the highest daily arrival of the year.