Tourism Industry Insight: The Shared-Island Dividend
Local tourism businesses compete for bookings, but they also sell one shared destination. Improving a neighbour can sometimes increase the value of your own room.
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Tourism Industry Insight: Better Segmentation Reveal the Tourism Story
Tourism averages are useful, but changing customer mix can make an improving headline conceal weakening performance or make a healthy business look unnecessarily weak.
Research Notes Series: Maldivian Resorts Coral Ecosystems as Productive Capital
This article conceptualises Maldivian resort reefs as productive natural capital and examines their economic relevance through ecosystem-service valuation, tourism pricing and...
Tourism Industry Insight: Different Source-Market Calendars Can Make Tourism Demand More Resilient
A destination is not truly diversified merely because visitors arrive from many countries. The strongest mix is one whose markets do not all weaken at the same time.
Maldives Resort Series: The Extra-Night Dividend
An extra night can be more valuable than a higher room rate. Where capacity is available, extending roughly one-quarter of stays may generate more contribution while spreading...
Tourism Industry Insight: Cross-Trained Staff Can Create Hidden Capacity in Hotels
The most valuable extra capacity in a hotel may not be another employee. It may be an existing employee who can competently move where demand suddenly appears.
Maldives Resort Series: Reducing transfer friction than cutting the villa rate
A transfer subsidy can outperform a larger villa discount even when it converts fewer guests. The hidden equation is whether removing arrival friction preserves enough bookings...
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