Everage Occupancy remains very high

Most of the Maldives resorts are currently experiencing high occupancy due to huge rise in tourist arrivals. Many resorts from Male atoll, atolls close to Male and atolls far away are overbooked.

Tourism Ministry said in an announcement that since the problem of overbooking has arisen and tourists are complaining about it a circular released Monday has ordered that booking is done according to law. Tourism Ministry said that 15,182 beds from78 resorts are being used by tourists. While 12,788 beds were used during last year’s January the number of beds used during January of 2004 was 16,088.