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Maldives ranked as top travel destination by Chinese magazine

China's Travel and Leisure magazine has ranked Maldives as the top travel destination in the world.

At a special ceremony, the award for top travel destination in the world was received by Ambassador of Maldives to China Mohamed Faisal. In addition, the magazine ranked Maldives amongst the top 8 most famous destinations worldwide.

China is one of the top tourist markets and is amongst the top tourist arrival countries to Maldives. 19.2% of tourist arrivals in February were from China, according to statistics published by Ministry of Tourism.