Female Tourists Aged 25–34 Lead Maldives Arrivals So Far This Year

Statistics released by the Ministry of Tourism indicate that, up to this point in the year, the highest number of visitors to the Maldives have been female tourists aged between 25 and 34 years. According to the data, 15 percent of tourists who have visited the Maldives so far this year fall into this demographic. The second largest group is male tourists from the same age group. The statistics also show that female tourists have been the most frequent visitors from all other age groups under 65 years of age. The ministry’s figures reveal that 1,775,974 tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year. Of these, 74 percent (1,292,053 tourists) spent their holidays at a resort, while 21.6 percent stayed in guesthouses. Hotels accounted for 39,112 visitors. In terms of source markets, China tops the list with 18.9 percent of arrivals, followed by Russia in second place and the United Kingdom in third. Germany is the fourth largest source market, Italy the fifth, and India—previously a top sender—is now in sixth place.