A total of 904 tourists has visited the country since the border has been reopened on July 15th after a long hiatus, with the most number of tourists coming from the United Kingdom.
Maldives Immigration revealed the statistics with the second highest number of tourists coming from the USA. The exact numbers are as follows;
UK: 117 tourists
US: 106 tourists
Germany: 73 tourists
Switzerland: 45 tourists
Russia: 45 tourists
Philippines: 45 tourists
UAE: 31 tourists
Spain: 31 tourists
Hungary: 30 tourists
Egypt: 23 tourists
The government closed the country’s border three months ago in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. Along with the closures of borders, the country’s tourism industry which counts for a large amount of the country’s GDP was brought to a halt as well.
