The Festivities for The Golden Jubilee of Maldivian Tourism Continues Strong!
Sunday 13th of March 2022
During a special ceremony held for the release of the official video of the theme song for the 50th year of tourism in the Maldives celebration. It was held at Social Center last this Friday and was attended by Minister of Tourism, Dr. Abdulla Mausoom, and other top tourism officials.
It was released by renowned local musicians, Mohamed Majid (Mezzo Mode), Abdul Rasheed (Absy) – founder and vocalist of Amazon Jade, and Nish Nashid – the talented daughter of Maldivian music legend Ahmed Nashid.
The song, Nala Nala Raajje, showcased the beauty that is the Maldives and spoke about the Maldivian culture as well.
The lyrics for the song were written by Detune Band and the video was produced Orkeyz Inc.
During the celebration, a special contest was also announced. The contest will happen on Tiktok and it consists of participants, both local and foreign, posting a 60-second video clip lip-syncing to ‘Nala Nala Raajje’ - the Maldives tourism golden jubilee theme song.
The contest is open to all, from March 12th to May 10th, but each account is allowed to enter three videos.
Everyone who most a video must tag the Ministry of Tourism's official Tiktok handle “@mot.mv” along with the hashtags #Maldives #NalaNalaRaajje #maldivestourism50 #visitmaldives.
Participants will be categorized based on two categories.
Categories for Maldivians:
Category A: TikTok accounts that have over 10k followers
Category B: TikTok accounts that have below 10k followers
Categories for Foreigners:
Category A: TikTok accounts that have over 1 million followers
Category B: TikTok accounts that have below 1 million followers
The evaluations will begin on the 11th of May and the winners will be announced on the 17th of May on the various social media of the Tourism Ministry. Evaluations will be done with 35% being allocated to views, 25% being allocated to likes and 40% being allocated to shares.
The Prizes for each category are as follows;
Maldivians:
Category A: TikTok accounts that have over 10k followers
Gold: MVR 25,000
Silver: MVR 15,000
Bronze: MVR 10,000
Category B: TikTok accounts that have below 10k followers
Gold: MVR 25,000
Silver: MVR 15,000
Bronze: MVR 10,000
Foreigners:
Category A: TikTok accounts that have over 1 million followers
Gold: Eight-day holiday package for two pax
Silver: Five-day holiday package for two pax
Category B: accounts that have below 1 million followers
Gold: Eight-day holiday package for two pax
Silver: Five-day holiday package for two pax