A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Muslim Millennial Travelers (MMTs), a distinctive subgroup of the modern millennial travellers are modelling a USD 100 billion market with their special requirements, interests and unique decision-making styles. Similar to the rest of the Millennial travellers, they are also more digital natives and like to share experience and adventures with the online community. Muslim Millennials […]
Technology continues to transform the way people do business. This is no exception for hospitality industry. Hotels and guest houses continue to face difficulties with double bookings, overbookings, lack of online presence, data error due to manual entry and time management. The ideal solution; a complete Channel Manager Software. A channel manager in the hospitality […]
Photo by MMPRC The Maldives will be represented as a travel destination at 40 different international fairs, exhibitions and trade shows during the year 2018. Various Destination Marketing Organizations are planning to participate in the marketing and promotion of the destination this year. The national DMO, Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) will be […]
Local company Maldives Island Reality (M.I.R) signed a 100-bed resort deal with the world renown record label Atlantic Records. According to M.I.R, this venture will be developed as an integrated resort development project. M.I.R founder Ahmed Shafee said that the resort will comprise of a world-class recording studio, underwater rooms and various luxury amenities and […]
Tourism Ministry plans to splash MVR 100 million on tourism marketing in 2018. Speaking at the new year’s function, Tourism Minister, Mr. Moosa Zameer indicated the importance of focusing on the MICE segment, especially events related to festivals, music shows, and other events. Maldives witnessed a 7% growth in tourism arrivals in 2017 compared to 2016, and […]
Laniakea Tech has partnered with Axisrooms to provide Channel Manager software free of charge to all tourism service providers in the Maldives. Resorts, guesthouses and other similar service providers can enjoy benefits of the software until the end of 2018. Channel Manager provides users with one Platform to manage inventory and pricing of online travel agents […]
Tourists arriving from the U.S. have been increasing due to more concrete online marketing techniques, according to the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC). In an interview with Avas, Acting Managing Director of MMPRC Mr Haris Mohamed said that since 2015 MMPRC focused especially on online marketing and that the outcome can be seen […]
Mr. Abdulla Ghiyas Riyaz, President of MATATO MATATO to participate in the Outbound Travel Roadshow set to be held in India in March 2018. The Outbound Travel Roadshow (OTR) will be held from 19 March 2018 – 22 March 2018 in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Delhi. According to Maldives Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators […]
As Dubai oil reserves drained off, many expected the same fate will happen to Dubai economy. However, Dubai managed to overcome all barriers and continued to surprise the world with unique and innovative strategies, architecture and technology. How Dubai made it is a perfect scenario for a developing country such as Maldives. Development of the […]