Maldives tourist arrivals increase by 18 percent for January

Tourist arrivals in the Maldives has increased by 18.5 percent for the month of January 2014 with a total of 105,296 tourists arrivals, compared to 88,869 tourists in January 2013, revealed Ministry of Tourism today.

In January 2014, a total of 30,612 holidaymakers arrived from China, making it the source of the most number of tourists in January. The number is an increase of 59 percent compared to January 2013.

Second most tourist arrivals for January 2014 were from Russia, a total of 9,289. United Kingdom stood in third place with 6.710 tourists arriving the Maldives, for the same month.

With 52,295 arrivals, Europe stood as the continent from which Maldives received the most number of tourists. Maldives received from 45,725 tourists from Asia and 3,903 tourists from the United States for January 2014.

Maldives for the first time reached the 1 million yearly tourist arrivals benchmark late last year.