Emerging Destinations: Dhaalu Atoll
Dhaalu Atoll – Your next travel destination. Located in the central Maldives and relatively new to welcoming the hospitality industry; opening its first resort in the late 90’s. Dhaalu is a quiet corner with excellent diving and snorkelling. With its population of about 5000 spread across seven inhabited islands. How do we classify a destination […]
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Collaborates with Johns Hopkins Medicine International
International health care experts to validate enhanced procedures of Lead With Care, the company’s new global program, and provide ongoing guidance as part of broader collaboration. Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world’s leading luxury hospitality company, has entered into a collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the global division of health care and research […]
Ooredoo Contributes to Relief Aid for Covid-19 Crisis
As COVID-19 continues to impact communities and businesses around the world, Ooredoo has continued to support customers across its global footprint with both digital solutions and relief measures. In addition to the measures of support extended so far in the Maldives, Ooredoo Group and Ooredoo Maldives has today contributed MVR 2,500,000.00 (Maldivian Rufiyaa Two Million […]
Setting Your Business Up for a Post Covid-19 World
In our work with Perspective Pvt Ltd and Hotelier Maldives over the last seven years, we were fortunate to work with a number of businesses big and small. While we were able to meet some or all of their marketing requirements, the interaction with these companies also offered us many lessons. Please note some of […]
Cocoon Investments Donates COVID-19 Protective Gears to Maldives
The business partners of Cocoon Investments Pvt Ltd has donated a consignment of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Maldives. The consignment included face masks, sanitizers and hazmat suits. The consignment was handed over by the Chairman of Cocoon Investments, Mr. Asgi Akbarally to His Excellency Omar Abdul Razzaq- High Commissioner of the Maldives to […]
Kaimoo’s Equator Village Resort Turns 21
Equator Village Maldives, located in Gan island, Addu, celebrates its 21st birthday as a Kaimoo-operated resort this week. The popular hotel first opened its doors to tourists in 1983, putting the southern atoll on the tourist map. Kaimoo took over the property in 1999. A former Royal Air Force Sergeants’ Mess from 1956-1976, when the […]
Anantara Launches ‘The Best of Kihavah’ Reopening Package
Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas has launched a new room package to commemorate the resort’s reopening in Q3 2020. A culmination of experiences unique not just to the destination but also exclusively available at this idyllic Indian Ocean retreat, this carefully curated six-night stay package includes three distinct once-in-a-lifetime adventures; snorkelling with manta rays, stargazing at […]
Ritz-Carlton to Debut in Maldives Late 2020
Newly built, 100-villa resort poised to open late 2020 Marriott International, Inc. is to debut The Ritz-Carlton brand in the Maldives, with a 100-villa resort amid white sandy beaches. The property, to be called The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands, is slated to open late 2020. The company has signed an agreement to this effect with […]
Digital trends 2020- what is everybody ‘tik-toking’ about?
With more than 4.5 billion people currently surfing the internet around the globe and an astonishing 3.8 billion happily doing so on social media, it has become imperative for brands around the world not just learning how simultaneously be on line on a variety of platforms, but most importantly how to thrive across these channels […]
Scenario Planning as a Business Strategy Tool
Woody Wade is a specialist in scenario planning, a technique allowing organizations to visualize different ways their “strategic landscape” could change in the future, so they can plan more flexibly. For ten years, Woody Wade has worked with organizations worldwide to help them foresee changes in their strategic landscape, using scenario planning. He is the […]
Aviation in the Maldives post- COVID 19
Given that tourism is the primary stay of the Maldivian Economy and aviation has been and will continue to be of critical importance. However, COVID 19 has made a huge impact and this is bound to change the role and format of aviation in the Maldives. WHO first declared COVID-19 as a world health emergency […]
Maldives Resorts: Commandeered for Quarantine Facilities
As a matter of light conjecture, the Maldives is reported to offer the best quarantine facilities – fully functional tourist resorts. As we all know, the Maldives is under a public health emergency since 12 March 2020. That was a step taken in reaction to the first positive Covid-19 case in a visiting Italian tourist […]
