Ministry of Tourism has revealed tourist arrivals have increased 23.6 percent in October this year.
Statistics released by the tourism ministry show that 142,066 tourists visited the Maldives in October which is an increase of 23.6% compared to the 114,896 tourists who visited the Maldives in September. Moreover, the statistics show the number of tourist arrivals recorded in October this year is an increase of 0.1% compared to October 2019 and 560% compared to October 2020.
The statistics show 92,103 tourist arrivals were recorded in January, 96,882 arrivals were recorded in February and 109,585 arrivals were recorded in March this year. Additionally, a total of 91,200 tourists visited the Maldives in April, 64,613 tourists visited in May, 56,166 visited in June, 101,818 in July, 143,599 in August, and 114,896 arrivals were recorded in September. A total of 1,012,928 tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year.
The Maldives currently sees an average of 4,583 tourists per day. Over 200,000 tourists are expected to arrive in the Maldives in the remaining days of the year.
Statistics show the highest number of tourist arrivals to the Maldives are from India. As such, 22.7% of the tourist arrivals to the Maldives so far this year are from India. The second-highest number of tourists arrived from Russia, which is 18.6% of the total tourist arrivals to the Maldives.