The Minister of Transport has decided to negotiate regarding the operations for seaplanes in order to reduce transport costs in the various islands, which are unreasonably too high.
The companies have given a proposal to the government on the expansion of transport by seaplanes in order to better connect to the various islands. Their proposal is to extend the connections by charging $ 95 per person and that the government will repay them if the passengers on a plane are less than 12. In this case the government would have to pay $ 51,881 per month that would be too expensive.
Now the government will seek an agreement that satisfies both the needs of the company is the expansion of transport with more reasonable costs.
Source: www.minivannews.com

The ceremony of the World Travel Awards Indian Ocean Gala will be celebrated in the Maldives and this will open up the country to the world, said the Minister of Tourism. The awards will be hosted for the Travel Industry in Paradise Island Resort and is expected to attend at least 300 professionals in the tourism industry that will take place alongside celebrities and government authorities.
The Minister of Tourism said that the negative reports on the Maldives have recently changed the world's opinion on the country, but with this event is to be hoped that the participants change their minds.
This is the twentieth edition of the World Travel Awards, it is the first time that the ceremony takes place in the Maldives.
Source: www.haveeru.com.mv

The largest yacht safari in the Maldives was inaugurated in the port of Alifushi Raa atoll. The construction of the vessel was commissioned by a Polish company, the Scuba Spa, registered in the Maldives. The boat is 170 feet long and 37 for its construction took about two years.
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The luxury resort Soneva Fushi would be accused of having faked his interest in the environment and have broken numerous contractual promises by the NGO Biosphere Expeditions.
Soneva in recent years has donated to a fund for the Biosphere Expeditions social and environmental responsibility to conduct coral reef research, this fund would have to extend for three years in duration, but as of today the resort has stopped helping the NGO kilter the promises made, and preventing the end of the work of Biosphere Expeditions. As a result of these facts are allegations of false matches interest in environmental issues, but the manager of Soneva tried to explain to them that this year has been very difficult and the entrance to the resort was not enough to finish donations the Biosphere Expeditions, soon will start legal action to resolve the situation.
Source: www.minivannews.com

The owner of an island involved in the growth of middle-market companies in the tourism sector has accused the new regulations to impose too many restrictions to financial joint venture projects with the government, and that this type of regulation would be aimed specifically to cut investments by small and medium investors. For this type of participation with the government in fact, the new regulation provides for a minimum investment of $ 300 million and an initial stake a minimum of $ 100 million. According to government claims these investments would be a way to ensure sustainable development in the country in the coming years.
Source: www.minivannews.com

Tourist arrivals to the Maldives in the first quarter of 2013 increased by 14.6% in the same period last year, a lower interest of tourists from Eastern Europe has led to a lack of growth in tourism in the countries and in Asia. To date, approximately 294,000 people have arrived in the Maldives between January and March, 2013, 100,000 of them in March, an increase of 30.1% over the same period last anus. This increase occurred despite the great problems we have emerged recently, such as the boycott of the tourist resorts of Maldives launched the website Avaaz.org, following the remarks of a 15 year old victim of sexual violence, with the aim of obtaining a new term to this type of crime. A similar boycott was also threatened by China, the allegations of discrimination against Chinese tourists at some resorts Maldivians. Despite the excellent results the tourism minister announced an advertising campaign that will involve the BBC and the group of Ruder Finn Public Relations, in order to improve the image of the Maldives in the world, and of course new advertising campaigns will be adopted in China to overcome its the problems that arose recently.
Source: www.minivannews.com

The promise of former President Nasheed to increase Guest House has been strongly criticized by the older figures of the government. According to them Nasheed is lacking frankness and sincerity.
The Minister of Tourism and Minister of Finance Adheeb have strongly attacked the former president as the number of beds in the Guest House has more than doubled since President Mohamed Waheed came to power. The two ministers also criticized Nasheed about a statement made previously to the international media, which stated that it was necessary to boycott the tourism sector in the Maldives.
Source: www.minivannews.com

The Blackstone Group announced that it has acquired the majority of the two airlines Maldivian: Maldivian Air Taxi "MAT" and Trans Maldivian Airwais "TMA".
MAT and TMA founded in 1989 and 100,000 in 1992 with their travel put them among the first places in the Twin Otter companies worldwide.
"Our investment in the Maldives will give us a good cooperation, we were very impressed by the excellent managment of companies and we know that together we will ensure even more the development of tourism also far from bad. Can we bring tourism to the Maldives to an even higher level, "says Senior Marketer Director, Prakash Melwani.
For several days, the two companies have begun to work together.

The job security of the staff of Kanuhura Resort consists of about 100 members, is at risk due to a strike in which the staff has participated this week. The safety of these workers, according to the head of the Association of employees in tourism, it is uncertain as it has been asked the workers to leave the property with a payment for the next week.
The legal representative of the resort said that there is an ongoing dispute regarding wages and that the Kanuhura has also sought the assistance of the Ministry of Tourism. In the course of this dispute, however, the resort has tried to maintain the operational structure, which was not possible due to lack of professionalism of some staff for the last two days.
Source: www.minivannews.com

Since Hulhule island Hotel has completed the facilities and made available to all the services and expanded the hotel has received many certificates for services and the quality of the structures. 2012 to HIH was a great year because he has received numerous international awards.
The International Hotel Awards, organized by the International Property Awards, the competition in April 2012 opened with 23 countries and the Hulhule Island Hotel has won the title of Five Star Rating Award, conferred by many experts and always won in 2012 the Best Airport Hotel Asia-pacific.
Source: www.miadhu.com

The consortium of the most prestigious in the world, the Leading Hotels of the World, chose Constance Halaveli Resort as one of the most prestigious. February 15 the resort will bear the mark of the Leading Hotels of the World.
Source: www.miadhu.com

The anti corruption commission will investigate on Club Faru resort since it is possible that the employees of the resort were recruited without being notified of a change of management.
During the month of January, the government has taken over the resort and seems to be doing work employees hired under the old management without having them notified of the change, which is very serious because the resort will be closed in two months and the workers were not warned.
Source: www.minivannews.com

In 2012, the Maldivian government has failed to achieve a record one million tourist arrivals, arrivals were about 958,027 in 2012 (931,333 in 2011) but the total inflow is still up 9% from 2011 to 2012. Despite the record number is not reached, the Minister of Tourism said that you could reach the million mark this year. At the first place in Europe in terms of arrivals are Germany and Italy fell by 24%.
Tourists coming from the Asia-Pacific region continue to grow by 10% increased the number of arrivals compared to 2011. The transition of Chinese tourists has continued to grow in 2012, surpassing by 15.6% the arrivals of 2011. Despite a number of Chinese tourists so high, tourism experts had declared in 2010 that the number of tourists visiting the Maldives has narrowed, however if we think their total population.
Source: www.minivannews.com

A member of the board of Universal Group said that we should increase the number of beds in the resort, this would lead to an explosion of arrivals by tourists.
Statistics from the Ministry of Tourism show that there are at least 50 resort still in development, the tourism minister has assured that the ministry will allocate funds for the improvement of such resort.
Source: www.haveeru.com

The Minister of Tourism has revealed today that the resort Club Faru will come closed within two months after the government took over the property last weekend. The Ministry of Tourism since yesterday is dealing with the property, this happened because the operators of the resort have failed in the management of the property.
Adheeb said that the closure of the resort is part of a government plan that aims to reclaim him Hulhumale.
Source: www.minivannews.com

The recent political instability have led to a decrease in demand by tourists, this year in fact, the occupancy rate has exceeded 10% only half of the available seats. The reduced inflow has not, however, influenced the decisions of hoteliers to raise prices, which are in fact soared by 10% over the same period last year.
Source: www.miadhu.com

Some personalities of tourism have welcomed gladly unconfirmed rumors on Cities football star David Beckham in the Maldives, as according to them, a figure so prominently in holiday in the Maldives can only bring good publicity to the country. The Beckham family seems accommodation One and Only Reethi Rah resort for a vacation of about eleven days.
Source: www.minnivannews.com

The Six Senses Lamuu was honored with the title of "Best International Spa" to The Sunday Times Readers' Awards. The awards were presented by the editor of Ed Grenby.
Source: www.miadhu.com

The Minister of Tourism has seen a 3.7% drop in arrivals compared to November of last year. Despite this fact, compared to last year arrivals rose by 2.4% between January and November and during this period were recorded 866,310 visitors and the "Marketing and Public Relations Corporation" had planned to arrive at the end of a million cave 'year. According to the Ministry of Tourism, in the month of November, the number of British visitors fell by 13% while the arrival of Chinese tourists has risen by 9.2%. 24.4% of tourists arrived in these eleven months of Chinese nationality. Last month, the number of German visitors dropped by 13.2% while that of the Italians fell as much as 35.9%.
Source: www.minnivannews.com

Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (MIRA) has decided to raise taxes on tourism services and goods from 6 to 8% from next January. According to the regulations of the MIRA and also stated in the act on taxes, the increase took place only in the tourism sector and will operate 24 hours 24 charging for everything to 8% from January 1. The law also provides that no company may change the schedule of services, this in order to avoid evasion.
The tourism sector is the one that contributes most to the revenue of the country. L 'tax increase will only promotes the economic growth of the country.
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E 'already rebuilt the roof of the restaurant Bathala, burned last week. The restaurant is therefore already operating.

Here are some photos during the repair

Enclosed are the statistics of arrivals for the month of August in the Maldives.

This morning, for reasons yet to be ascertained is burned part of the roof of the restaurant in Bathala. There were no problems for the other structures on the island and for other areas of the restaurant.

By the time it was used as a restaurant bar.

The roof should be repaired by the end of September.

Chinese food? Shopping? Games? It will be easier for travelers to find these things when you spend a holiday in the Maldives.
The villages Maldivians have always been designed for European tourists, but the Maldives are focusing on how to best respond to Chinese travelers.
The President of the Maldives, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, said in an exclusive interview with China Daily that the number of Chinese tourists visiting the Maldives is on the rise and have quickly become the largest consumers of all tourists in the Maldives.
"Most of the resorts in the Maldives have been developed for European tourists. With more Chinese tourists coming in, I think we can also create resorts that are best suited to meet their needs, "said Waheed at the second China-Eurasia Expo.
China has become increasingly important for tourism in the Maldives and in 2010 overtook the UK and has now become the first country as tourist arrivals.
Official figures reveal that China has 22.2% of all arrivals this year. An increase of 14.5% compared to last year.
In June alone, arrivals from China were 17,809, equal to 30% of the total market share and 15.6% growth compared to June of last year. As a result, Beijing last year opened in Male embassy.

The ceremony took place in the departure terminal of the airport and was accompanied by a dance by the students.
The airport Kooddoo was built in seven months. This opening is also very important for the resort Park Hyatt and The Residence Maldives places on the east side of Gaafu. This will shorten the fast boat transfers to and from the resort in question.
(Source Haveeru Online)

The Maldives has recorded an increase in tourists by 6.1% in June 2012 compared to the same period last year, according to estimates by the guild for Marketing and Public Relations Maldives (MMPRC).

(Source: Minivan News)

The Sultans Surf Point, north of the atoll of Male, the Maldives, is mentioned in the list of the 50 best places to surf CNN winning one of the top 10 positions.

(Source: Maldives Promotion House)

The Mega Maldives began flying between Malé and Hangzhou, in eastern China. This is the sixth largest city in the Maldives connected by Mega.

(Source: Maldives Promotion House)

The Maldives were down by 1, 4% in arrivals in May when compared with the same period last year. According to the Asia Pacific Travel Association (PATA), the Maldives are the only destination that has suffered a decline in tourist nell'affluenza of the whole area.

(Source: Minivan News)