In an effort to encourage investments within the tourism industry, the Government of the Maldives has decided to bring changes to the tourism lease rent rates for islands leased within the north and south atolls of the Maldives. The Minister of Economic Development, Uz. Fayyaz Ismail announced...

Eva and I first visited the Maldives in the 1980s. We fell in love with the country, holidayed here many times and, in the early 1990s, started to invest. Initially it was in Humming Bird helicopters, the country’s first domestic air transportation company, which eventually morphed into TMA....

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The future of this industry promises to be exciting and profitable again as long as hotel owners are ready to reinvent and question past working models.

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SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 123 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Monday (Jul 20), with 11 infections in the community, said the Ministry of ...