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John Philipson is the area director Soneva Fushi and Soneva Gili resort in Maldives

May 1st, 2007 | By MOG | Category: News and Updates, Resorts, Updates

John Philipson has joined Six Senses Resorts & Spas as the area director for the Maldives. Six Senses currently operate iconic Soneva Fushi voted Best of the Best in Conde Naste Traveller’s Awards, and the Maldives’ first over-water resort, Soneva Gili. Six Senses is currently developing Evason Latitude at Laamu, which is scheduled to open [...]

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Maldives celebrates record March tourist arrival

Apr 27th, 2007 | By MOG | Category: Best Dive Resort, News and Updates, Romantic Honeymoon Resorts, Updates

Maldives tourism continuously rides its wave to success as records for March showed an increase of 18.1 percent in visitor arrivals, from 2006’s 54,596 to this year’s 64,485, according to the tourist arrival statistics. The highest ever March arrival recorded before this year was in 2004 before tsunami hit the Maldives.
Arrival numbers to the Maldives [...]

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Maldives tourism industry participates in ITB Berlin 2007

Mar 7th, 2007 | By MOG | Category: News and Updates, Updates

Maldives Tourism Promotion Board is currently participating in ITB Berlin 2007, the world’s largest travel trade fair currently underway from 7 till 11 March 2007. Maldives delegation is headed by the Minister of Tourism & Civil Aviation Dr. Mahamood Shougee, along with some key industry players.
Over 200 participants, including the representatives from the Maldives Tourism [...]

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Hilton Maldives resort to be re-branded Conrad Maldives Rangali Island

Mar 6th, 2007 | By MOG | Category: Featured Resorts, News and Updates, Updates

Hilton Maldives Resort and Spa will be re-branded as a Conrad, the company’s luxury hotel brand, Hilton Hotels Corp. said Monday.
The resort will be renamed the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, effective Dec. 2007. Following the re-branding, the resort will offer an increased range of amenities. There will be no disruption to guests during the re-branding [...]

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Record number of tourists in January 2007

Feb 21st, 2007 | By MOG | Category: News and Updates, Updates

A record number of tourists visited the Maldives last month, statistics show.
The Tourism Ministry said 64,570 tourists arrived in Maldives in January, compared with 58,332 at the same time last year. The previous record month was March 2004, pre-tsunami, when 63,855 visited.
“This is a great start”, Director General of the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) [...]

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Lewis Gordon Pugh swims across the Maldives

Feb 20th, 2007 | By MOG | Category: News and Updates, Updates

Lewis Gordon Pugh, continues his legacy on long distance swim in the beautiful Maldives. Mr. Pugh and his team arrived in Male’ the very small capital of the Maldives on the 13th Feb 2006.
The aim of this swim is to raise awareness on the problems of global warming and ask the industrialized nations such US, [...]

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Hilton Maldives wins more awards!

Feb 1st, 2007 | By MOG | Category: News and Updates, Updates

Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa has won the Best Luxury (4 and 5 star) in the World in www.tripadvisor.com 2006 Traveler’s Choice Awards as well as Best Luxury (4 and 5 star) in Asia.
‘We are very proud to have won these awards because tripadvisor.com reflects the opinions of genuine travellers from around the world who [...]

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Tsunami-hit Maldives’ tourism industry resurges

Jan 13th, 2007 | By MOG | Category: News and Updates, Updates

As the speedboat carrying foreign tourists approaches Olhuveli Resort of the Maldives, two young men wearing sarongs walk to the end of the pier to welcome the guests, beating long drums strapped to their waists.
The tourists, led by the drum-beating youth, walk down a bridge to Olhuveli Resort’s reception hall where they are presented with [...]

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