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MALDIVES
Maldives Destination Fact Sheet
GEOGRAPHY
• The Maldives is an archipelago of 1,190 coral islands located in the Indian Ocean, 600km South of India and 670km west of Sri Lanka
• Some 200 islands are inhabited.
• The Maldives’ islands are one of the lowest-lying island nations
• The islands stretch for 820km, it is a maximum of 130km wide
• The total land area is 298sq km
• The population in the Maldives is around 300,000
• 1/3 of the population live in the capital Malé
• The average temperature year-round is 29 - 32°C
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Images Courtesy of Maldives Tourism www.visitmaldives.com
TOURISM
• There are currently 89 resorts in the Maldives with a total of 20,700 resort beds available.
• A further 35 islands have been released for development as resorts, thereby spreading tourism across the whole of the Maldives and increasing bed capacity by 8,600.
• The new resort islands will be located in the new Central and Southern Tourism Zones, served by the airport at Gan and other regional airports.
• Visitors will be able to choose two direct gateways to the Maldives the existing airport at Malé and the new international at Gan.
• The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) predicts that arrivals to Maldives are likely to increase by 6.8% in 2006 and 2007, bringing the expected figure to around 658,000 per year.
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