In the digital age, our lives increasingly intertwined with a vast, invisible network offering boundless opportunities and significant risks. The recent report by the UNDP on Small Island Digital States, released ahead of the crucial Fourth International Conference on Small…
The figure illustrates tourists arrival to the Maldives from different regions. The log scale helps us to understand rate of change. Some notable changes include stagnation of European market from 2005-2015, and slowdown of Asian market since 2015. On the…
From August to September 2016, I conducted a field survey of Guesthouses in the Maldives to obtain information about the education and work experience of Guesthouse owners/managers as well as the quality of the environment where the hotels are located.…
Do hotels with higher guest ratings have higher room prices? [Booking.com ask guests to give a score between 1 to 10 based on each of following items (services) of the hotels: cleanliness, comfort, location, facilities, staff and value for money]…
One of the notable trends in the post-1950 has been the rising importance of international tourism activities. Tourist arrivals increased from 25 million globally in 1950 to 1.133 billion in 2014 (World Tourism Organization [UNWTO] Tourism Highlights, 2015 Edition, 2015).…
– Considering the fast-evolving nature of the COVID-19 crisis, it is extremely challenging to forecast international tourist arrivals to the Maldives during the year 2020. – World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates international tourist arrivals could decline by 20% to 30%…
With the improvement in living standard and better health facilities, among others, the life expectancy in the Maldives now stands at 76 years. This suggests an increase in the elderly population in the country. However, most of these senior citizens,…
Over the years, many seafarers have visited the Maldives, some cast ashore by shipwreck. As a result, Maldives is referred by Indian, Arab, Chinese, and even Roman sources. Yet, few well-known foreign scholars have systematically studied the Maldives.Foreign scholars who…
Although Maldives is a small country, it presents an interesting case to anyone interested in those factors associated with tourism flow because it has one of the most well-developed tourism industry among island economies. However, the questions arise as to…
Izu Consultancy is working with the island Council of Holhuhdoo to submit a project proposal to the Embassy of Japan in the Maldives under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). The purpose of the project proposal is…
