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The newly passed tourism tax bill imposes a sales of tax of 3.5% on all services rendered by travel agencies. Additionally the same percentage is imposed on services provided in the resorts, a total of staggering 7% Sales Tax from tourists’ pocket.
In sale of holiday packes well established agencies keep a margin of 10% inclusive [...]
Suppose you were in the management team of Kurumba Maldives, what would you say to tourists who enquire about the recent strike? How did they manage this strike? Can the strike be an advantage for marketing?
Recently Maldives local news reported of a strike being taken place at Kurumba Maldives, a 5 star resort that is [...]
I am an undergraduate student studying hospitality management in an island in Malaysia. I did my higher diploma in 2006 and was working ever since. I held a managerial position at a Universal Resort for about 3 years. For me it is a great concern to hear strike in tourism industry, even when I am not [...]
It’s being really a long time since my last post. I can see some posts have even got missing in the move between my old and new hosting provider. In my last post (which is now missing) I wrote about how I came to switch to studies. The basic reason was the economic recession.
Now, I’m [...]
Do you think it’s a revolutionary new style to walk with your laptop? Would it be easier to carry this way? Would people notice if you walk this style? First, let me tell you what this picture is about.
Adamo is a high class ultra-thin laptop recently introduced by Dell. If you visit Adamo’s home page, [...]
If you were at a tourism college you might have heard of tourism being multi-dimensional. But, have you ever heard of earthquake debris being converted to a tourism product?
Chinese province of Suchian was hit by a deadly earthquake measured 8.0 magnitude on 12th May 2008. Thousands of people were killed and many were buried both [...]
The Latin word vacto means milk and ovo means egg. Vacto-ovo vegetarians eat both and do not eat any meat at all. I’m on vacto-ovo diet for next 3 days. After a long time, I’m going to experience the tastes of various vegetarian dishes and feel the difference. Even if I don’t weigh anywhere close [...]
Few days ago I went for walk along the mile-long white beach and found some empty bottles just landed. It must have come from the sea as our tourists don’t carry bottles to that area and I had seen some floating towards the island. At a distance the cleaner was collecting the stuff into his [...]
Every resort in Maldives has some sort of welcome proceeding for arrival guests. A team member goes to the jetty and expects guest’s arrival before the boat could alongside. In some resorts the Greeter goes to jetty before a guest onboard could notice the people on the island.
When the guests travel by boat many do [...]
Tourists get lot of facilities and services from the resorts, only sky is the limit or the tourist’s budget, and tourism is multi-dimensional. Every high-end resort walks the extra mile and earns smiles. All resorts have; spa, water sports centre, diving centre, food and drinks. Only Huvafen Fushi has an underwater spa, and only Conrad [...]