Travel receipts

• The latest figure is US$392.9 million for Jul 2026, up 15.3% on the same month a year earlier.
• In the first 7 months of 2026 the total was US$3.31 billion, up 2.2% on the same stretch of 2025.
• Over the latest 12 months it came to US$5.64 billion, up 8.2% on the 12 months before.
• The change on a year earlier averaged +2.0% over the last three months, against −5.5% in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned positive.

• Trend growth over the past 10 years is 9.5% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.56, a moderate fit, with sizeable swings around the path).
• Measured end to end, compound growth is 18.5% a year over five years and 8.6% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
• The record high (12-month total) was US$5.79 billion in the year to Feb 2026; the latest is 2.6% below it.
• 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 December and the low point May. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

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Source

Maldives Monetary Authority

Published by

MMA Statistics Database, series 246

MMA table

Real Sector › Tourism › Memorandum Items

Coverage

Jan 2011 to Jul 2026 · 187 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.