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More than 300,000 Chinese tourists have visited the Maldives this year, making China the country’s largest source of tourist arrivals.
Mariyam Adheela
More than 300,000 Chinese tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year.
Male’: A total of 300,977 Chinese tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year, according to Tourism Ministry statistics.
China accounted for 19 percent of all tourist arrivals recorded this year. The figure is 14 percent higher than the 263,599 Chinese visitors recorded during the same period last year.
China was also the Maldives’ largest tourism market last year, with 329,428 arrivals.
Russia ranked second this year with 229,236 tourists. The United Kingdom was third with 119,968 visitors.
A total of 150,764 tourists visited the Maldives in September. Overall arrivals have now crossed 1.6 million.
The government has set a target of welcoming 2.5 million tourists this year.
