Maldives ready for first Hotelier Summit in July

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Maldives’ first Hotelier Summit will be hosted on 12 July from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Dharubaaruge.

The summit, which is a major component of Travel Trade Maldives (TTM), is aimed to act as a platform whereby stakeholders of the industry would meet in one place to discuss the future of tourism in the Maldives.

The summit offers a solution-oriented platform that facilitates face-to-face meetings, networking activities, and information exchange amongst the most elite assemblage of hotel owners and general managers.

Panels are scheduled to take place at the summit in which more than 80 general managers from resorts and hotels of Maldives is set to take part and various topics are set to be discussed that are significant to the Maldivian tourism industry.

Notable attendees include Head of Ministries, Travel Weekly, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Representatives from Expedia, Trip Advisor, IITM, Air Asia and American Express.

World tourism is seeing an ever increasing growth, with the Maldives government planning to develop over 50 resorts before the end of 2018. The major focus of the summit will address matters and discuss ways in which demand would meet the ever growing supply planned for the tourism industry of the country while looking at the future.