Where our data comes from, how estimates are made, and why we separate the two.
Ministry of Tourism and MMPRC / Visit Maldives arrival data; Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) movements; Ministry of Finance and Maldives Monetary Authority fiscal series.
STR/CoStar occupancy and ADR benchmarks; OAG and Cirium capacity and schedule data; company disclosures (Accor, Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Ennismore).
Opening dates, brand signings and rate positioning verified against Forbes, Hotelier Maldives, TTG, Skift and Business of Travel — never from press releases alone.
Luxury consortia advisors (Virtuoso, Traveller Made), leading tour operators and DMCs for realised rates, transfer costs and booking-window behaviour.
Every figure is either confirmed (cited to a source) or an estimate (labelled as such, with the reasoning shown). We never blend the two silently.
Our house metric: published villa rate plus T-GST, service charge, green tax, transfers, fees and mandatory dining — the number a guest actually pays per night.
We do not sell rooms, take commissions or rank by partnership. A resort's position in our tables reflects our analysis, not a commercial relationship.
Every issue states its data cut-off. Markets move; we update destination pages when the underlying facts change, not on a publishing calendar.
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