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Haveeru Daily
12 September 2005
MALE, Sept 12 (HNS) -- According to Ministry
of Tourism and Civil Aviation, the occupancy
of hotels and resorts has increased to
77.5 percent.
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Occupancy
of resorts increasing
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At the end of last month the occupancy
was 77.5 percent. At the end of last year,
occupancy of hotels was 92.3 percent and
during the month of July, this year, it
was 61.6 percent.
According to the Tourism Ministry the
number of beds operated in the resorts
last month was 13,822.
Surveys have shown that the number of
tourists visiting the country had increased
by 28 percent, from the month of July to
the month of August. However compared to
the same period of last year it is 31.3
percent less.
Last month, 38,366 tourists visited the
Maldives but this value is 26 percent less
than the estimated value of Maldives Tourism
Promotion Board (MTPB). Their estimated
value was 52,137.
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