Number of tourists visited in August rises

Compared to the month of August last year, statistics from the Tourism Ministry has shown that the number of tourists visited the country this August has increased.

Statistics from the Tourism Ministry shows an increase of 5.7 percent with 110,144 tourists visiting this August compared to the last year’s 104,186.

Up to the end of August, statistics shows 823,766 tourists visiting the country in 2015 so far which is a 2.2 percent increase compared to the last year’s period.

Statistics shows China as the highest number of tourists visiting the country in August. And so in August, there were 40,850 tourists from China.

The second highest number of tourists came from England with 7805 tourists. The highest number of tourists came to the Maldives from the Asia Pacific region with 60,856 tourists.

There were 39,881 tourists from the former top market of Europe.