Maldives has a wide selection of resorts to offer for holiday makers. There are currently over 92 resorts in the Maldives. Tourism arrived in the early 1970s as the hippy trail snaked down through India to wind up in isolated fishing villages causing consternation to islanders as foreigners lounged about on the beach in what appeared to be their underwear, and sometimes no-wear at all. As tourism has expanded from the core of Malé Atoll to the whole apple of the Maldives, with new resorts soon to open in the northern tip of Haa Alif Atoll and in the deep south across the Equator in Addu Atoll, more Maldivians are getting a taste of the once forbidden fruit of tourism.