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No Kids Allowed: Child-Free Resorts in the Maldives
The Maldives has long been a premier destination for couples seeking a romantic beach getaway. But in recent years, more families have been visiting our island paradise, bringing children along on holiday. For some resorts, this influx of kids is an opportunity to cater to a new market. But others take a different approach. These exclusive “child-free” resorts create an adults-only oasis, free…
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The Jet Pack Dream Lives On
It’s been more than 10 years since the promise was first made – resort workers zipping home after their shifts using personal jet packs. At the time, it seemed like a pipe dream, but recent advances in technology may finally make this a reality. Back at that time, jet packs were the stuff of science fiction. The few working models were bulky, noisy, and prohibitively expensive. But they captured…
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The Life of a Resort Civil/Project/Maintenance Engineer
As a civil engineer working at a resort, there’s never a dull moment. When the resort occupancy is slowed down in the off-season, that’s when the real work begins – the myriad in-house development projects that help keep the resort fresh and exciting for guests. As rewarding as these projects are, they also come with their fair share of headaches! Whether an entire overwater villa complex is…
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The Inhumane Truth Behind Boiling Lobsters
He still could not shake the disturbing kitchen scene from his mind. While working at a luxury resort restaurant, he had seen how the chef prepared live lobsters for wealthy guests. The chef grabbed the writhing creatures from the glass pond where its kept alive and plunged them headfirst into a vat of boiling water. As the temperature seared their flesh, the lobsters thrashed violently in…
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Canteen Decorated with Fake Celebrity Quotes
Walking into his resort’s staff canteen, he spotted motivational posters adorning the walls. Historical figures like Gandhi, Churchill, Bob Marley appeared alongside witty sayings. But do these celebrities actually utter those words? Curious, he asked the HR manager about the apt inspirational quotes. The HR boss laughed and shared a secret – the quotes were all fake! Their graphics team just…
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Are Indian Journalists Exaggerating About Maldives Sinking?
An Indian journalist holidays in a lavish Maldivian resort. Between sipping cocktails on the white sand beach, he tweets warnings the nation will be underwater within years. His dramatic climate change story is gobbled up by major Indian outlets. But locals know it an exaggeration. The Indian reporter is not used to the unique geophysics of shallow, low-lying island nations. For Maldivians,…
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Why Does our Ex President Want to Rear Pigs?
Really baffled were we by the recent news that His Excellency our ex President Nasheed also know as Hassan Kurusee @HKurusee wants to start rearing pigs in the Maldives. Of all the economic initiatives he could propose, why choose an animal forbidden in Islam? Rumors are swirling that the President has acquired a taste for pork dishes. Maybe during his travels abroad or from expatriate friends…
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Where Do MPs Get the Money to Buy Resorts?
A peculiar trend has emerged in recent years – Maldivian MPs investing huge sums to purchase resort islands within months of being elected to office. Where are these parliamentarians getting the funds for such massive investments? One must wonder if these purchases point to deeply entrenched corruption. Or are we to believe a string of lottery-like luck has struck our honorable members? Take…
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Post Covid19, Maldives is seeing record increase in tourist arrivals.
Post Covid19, Maldives is seeing record increase in tourist arrivals.
Tourists are flocking Maldives once again after a big break and the numbers are getting to pre covid levels. The Airport is serving now 4000 arriving tourists per day which is comparable to pre-covid maximum of 5000 arrivals per day. Many new international brands have also opened which were in construction phase when Covid-19 struck. Due to advantage of isolated islands most resorts in…
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Islands given away to corruption on a massive scale. MMPRC case file released by ACC
After months of public pressure, the Anti Corruption Commission released the 700 page report on the biggest corruption case in Maldives history. The report contains the companies, individuals and businesses who were involved in the corruption and the implications are mind boggling.
The money siphoned off from lease of islands and lagoons worth over 70 million dollars was used for everything…
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pity the civil workers
Its good to have a day for the workers every year to appreciate the hard work that goes to make a nation. In most developed countries May day is a historic day fought and won and needs to be continuously fought each year for numerous issues. But here in Maldives Mayday is the same as Saturday or Thursday. Mayday is not a holiday and sadly no political leader has any plans to make it one.
Looking back over one year the one thing that should sadden any worker here is the fact that ruling party has made it mandatory to make civil servants join their political rallies, to inflate the numbers and show that they still have political relevance. Civil servants are forced to join these political gatherings despite their objections and despite their political leanings. Forced with dismissals and demotions and with attendance registering, civil servants have no choice but to join and clap to the nonsense coming from the podium.
In the private sector, workers are still toiling 6 days a week often overworked without overtime, lack of protection of job security, medical insurance and expected minimum bonuses. The country has an equal number of expatriate workers most of who are undocumented and continue to work as illegal workers. Human trafficking in expatriate workers is at an alarming level and authorities are not willing to tackle the problem. Unlike many other countries of the world, Maldives does not border any country with land but the government doesn’t even know the number of trafficked workers who live in slavery level existence.
In bilateral relations, Maldives has an ongoing-spat with India which is affecting work visas of hundreds of doctors and teachers and other workers from all fields. While both governments seemed tight lipped with the situation, its common knowledge that no new work visas are being to issued to Indians and vis-a-vis for Maldivians going for medical treatment in India.
In the past one year many new resorts opened and many jobs were created. This is good news for workers and economy, but the full benefit of this is not realized because the government does not have any policies to protect and employ the local workers. The real unemployment rate of the country is in double digits and because the government wouldn’t be bothered to address the issue, they conveniently played with the numbers and now our unemployment rate is better than the most advanced countries in EU.
While the world is going the way of unlimited leaves and rise of machines which will ultimately
do most works humans currently do and what to do about them, we are still here in the dark ages struggling with the basics. Mayday in Maldives is still a day for the opposition parties to taunt the government, and for the government to lie to the people. Mayday will be a day for workers when its understood as a day of reflection for the workers and their efforts that build the country.
Happy Mayday 2018 Maldives Its good to have a day for the workers every year to appreciate the hard work that goes to make a nation.
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Recently a fellow resort worker applied to a job in a big brand resort and was well into the process of the interviews untill he asked an innocuous question. He asked how much can he expect as monthly service charge. His interviewer was not impressed. The interviewer refused to disclose any amount be it maximum, minimum or even average. The interview faltered from this point onwards and our…
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What is the best PMS to use in resort?
PMS or property management software goes by many names. There are many types of PMS related software often packaged as modules and sold with other bigger software packages such as inventory trackers & booking systems. A typical PMS setup would be to have a database of all assets, PMP (preventive maintenance program) routines, reporting levels, workorder processes which all tries to update key…
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Service charge rankings by resort Chavel Blanc Randheli leads all resorts in Maldives in service charge payments. This trend has been ongoing for quite sometime and it looks like bigger brands with new hotels will dominate this in the future.
Is King Salman really buying an atoll in Maldives?
The short answer is sort of yes. The atoll in question is Faafu which is a sparsely populated atoll with lots of beautiful islands. Total population of Faafu atoll is around 5000 will in all likelihood will be resettled in Hulhumale under the proposed deal. The deal is rumored to be worth 10 billion and the atoll will be reclaimed and enlarged to build a mega tourist city. The rationale for…
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Why not give discounted room rates to individual customers rather than to Tour Operators? To make them fat?
Why not give discounted room rates to individual customers rather than to Tour Operators? To make them fat?
Guests want to book their holidays with the resort; resort wants guests to book directly with them.
But resorts give discounted wholesale rate to tour operators but not to individual guests despite wanting them as direct booked guests. What cooks?
Here is the everyday situation in resorts that shouldn’t have been in the first place. After seeing a gorgeous picture (something like the picture…
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Strike action in Hulhule Island Hotel over discrimination
Strike action in Hulhule Island Hotel over discrimination
Vaguthu reports about the ongoing strike action in Hulhule Island hotel.
The local staff of the hotel are on strike about dissatisfaction with management for not being paid the salary in US dollars and asking for a raise.
HIH is operated by a joint venture company with 35% share of sats (Singapore) and 65% share of MACL (Maldives).
According to Vaguthu report, 80 of the 90 local staff are on…
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