Ministry of Tourism has revealed tourist arrivals to the Maldives have surpassed 100,000 so far this month.
As per the Maldives Tourism Update Report, it was the sixth consecutive month in which over 100,000 tourists have visited the Maldives. The Maldives has recorded an average of 5,153 arrivals per day so far in December. The tourism ministry stated the Maldives recorded 113,368 arrivals from December 1-22.
As per the statistics, 92,103 tourist arrivals were recorded in January, 96,882 in February, and 109,585 in March this year. Additionally, a total of 91,200 tourists visited the Maldives in April, 64,613 tourists in May, 56,166 in June, 101,818 in July, 143,599 in August, 114,896 arrivals in September while, 142,066 tourist arrivals were recorded in October and 144,725 tourist arrivals were recorded in November.
The largest number of tourist arrivals were recorded from India with 286,434 arrivals. Russia is second with 214,232 tourist visits and Germany is third with 90,732 tourist visits so far this year.