Task 1. Developments in the travel and tourism industry
Tourism is the largest economic industry in Maldives. And tourism began in 1972. Tourism is the activities of person traveling and staying in places outside their usual environment not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other. And tourism plays an important role in earning foreign exchange revenues and generating employment in the tertiary sector of the country. Kurumba Island is the first resort which was opened in Maldives then Bandos island resort was opened. Kurumba began with 30 room’s constructed using local material with walls made from coral stone and roofs of palm thatch. And Bandos involved the building of 32 rooms with two blocks of 10 rooms and six separate blocks of two rooms. In 1972 the first tourist came to Maldives. And they are who debarked from an Air Ceylon charter on to Hulhule island airstrip for 12 days of snorkeling, spear fishing and basking in the sun on white sand beaches.
Travel and tourism industry has developed as seasons changes and animal migrated, people traveled to survive all over the world. Those early travelers move on foot from one place to another. But nowadays transport has become much easier than we realize. The cause of easily transportation the tourism industry has become wider. If more tourists are traveling all over the world countries have to build more resorts and hotels. There are different classifications of hotels. Downtown or city hotels are