Resort Life organizes a trip to Maldives for Ukrainian social media influencers. A total of 45 influencers arrived in Maldives on September 8, Sunday. The week-long trip of the influencers will be hosted by Kandima Resort and Riu Hotel Maldives. They will be offered a variety of experiences in Maldives which then they will publish on various internet platforms including social media.
The influencer trip is in line with Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation’s efforts to promote Maldives through familiarization trips of Maldives for foreign media personnels. Thoyyib Mohamed, the Managing Director of MMPRC welcomed the influencers at the Velana International Airport, Male, Maldives. Speaking at the event he applauded the work of individual parties such as Resort Life, to promote Maldives as a destination.
“These familiarization trips have been successful. Arrivals from these markets are showing positive growth” He said, referring to the series of fam trips organized by MMPRC and individual properties.
The first six months of this year have recorded the highest arrivals for a 6-month period since 2010 with 1.1 million arrivals, from January to June 2019. The rate of tourist arrival from Ukraine from January to July 2019 was 7,623; an increment of 12.6% when compared to the same period of 2018.