The Maldives received more than 5,100 tourists on Monday, the highest daily record yet in 2021, local media reported.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, around 5,000 tourists arrived here and 3,000 this year.
The island country received 160,000 tourists between January 1 and February 20 this year, who were mainly from India, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, Xinhua reported.
The tourism ministry aims to attract a total of 1.5 million tourists to the country by the end of this year.
