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Tourist bednights from Safari vessels

Tourism Indicators › Bed nightsMonthlyBednightsPart of Tourist bednights

Latest
20,343
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+20.9%
same period last year
2026 to date
205,695
+12.2% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
1.2% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.01

The whole record

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Source: Ministry of Tourism and Environment, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 20,343 bednights for Aug 2026, up 20.9% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 205,695 bednights, up 12.2% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 299,088 bednights, up 5.7% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +41.2% over the last three months, against +4.8% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace has picked up.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 1.2% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.01, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 18.1% a year over five years and 0.9% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The latest figure (12-month total) is the highest on record.
  • The past five years include an exceptional swing in the annual growth rate, so no typical range is quoted.
  • There is a regular seasonal pattern: over the last 5 full years the high point has been March and the low point June. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

How to read this series

Capacity and stay. How long visitors stay and how full the beds are. Bednights are arrivals multiplied by length of stay; the occupancy rate is bednights as a share of the bed capacity in operation. Arrivals can rise while bednights lag if stays get shorter. Travel receipts are what visitors spend, in US dollars.

  • A flow: it measures activity during each month, and months add up to an annual total.
  • Recent periods are often revised as fuller data arrive. The version comparison below shows what MMA has changed since this site began keeping copies.

Terms such as percentage points, flows and stocks, and trend growth are explained in How to read the tracker.

Revisions

This site holds one version of this series so far, first stored on 6 Oct 2026. Each time MMA adds a period or revises a past figure, a new version is kept alongside the old one and the two are charted against each other here.

Stored versions of Tourist bednights from Safari vessels
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202627 Sep 2026Jan 2010 – Aug 2026———

Sorted by Version, descending.

All figures

Every period on record, newest first. Sort by any column, filter, copy the table or download it as CSV.

Every observation of Tourist bednights from Safari vessels
Aug 202620,343 bednights+20.9%
Jul 202615,692 bednights+117.4%
Jun 202612,566 bednights−14.7%
May 202617,535 bednights−1.2%
Apr 202630,131 bednights+23.9%
Mar 202634,391 bednights−8.3%
Feb 202639,538 bednights+23.2%
Jan 202635,499 bednights+8.2%
Dec 202523,565 bednights−15.6%
Nov 202526,548 bednights−4.8%
Oct 202522,641 bednights−9.6%
Sep 202520,640 bednights+8.9%
Aug 202516,831 bednights−23.5%
Jul 20257,216.92 bednights−38.9%
Jun 202514,734 bednights+85.4%
May 202517,756 bednights−4.1%
Apr 202524,310 bednights−14.6%
Mar 202537,496 bednights+10.2%
Feb 202532,103 bednights+11.6%
Jan 202532,809 bednights+24.4%
Dec 202427,920 bednights+65.3%
Nov 202427,881 bednights+19.3%
Oct 202425,058 bednights−10.7%
Sep 202418,954 bednights+3.1%
Aug 202422,006 bednights+41.7%
Jul 202411,820 bednights+4.9%
Jun 20247,947.27 bednights−9.9%
May 202418,523 bednights+33.1%
Apr 202428,470 bednights−5.5%
Mar 202434,015 bednights+1.8%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 209
MMA table
Real Sector › Tourism › Tourism Indicators › Bed nights
Coverage
Jan 2010 to Aug 2026 · 200 observations
MMA updated
27 Sep 2026
Last checked
22 Oct 2026

The analysis is calculated by Good Morning Maldives from the published figures; it describes the data and is not a forecast.