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Why Maldives?

The Maldives offers:

  • Strategic location: positioned ideally on major global shipping routes providing direct access to key markets in Asia, the Middle East, and beyond, enhancing international reach of your business.
  • Favorable policies: investor-friendly policies, including tax holidays and duty exemptions, designed to create a supportive environment for business growth and profitability.
  • Tourism potential: thriving luxury tourism industry, offering significant opportunities for investments in hospitality, resorts, and related sectors.
  • Political stability: security of a stable political environment, reducing investment risks, providing a reliable foundation for long-term business goals.
  • Skilled workforce: a growing, youthful, and increasingly skilled workforce, providing the talent needed to support diverse business ventures within SEZs.
  • Legal protection: the confidence that the Maldives offers a strong legal framework that protects investor rights and ensures a fair business environment.
  • Diverse opportunities: The nine strategic areas of investments identified under Presidential Decree offers a wide range of investment opportunities across various sectors, including tourism, logistics, manufacturing, and renewable energy, within the dynamic SEZs of the Maldives.

In the pursuit of diversification of its economy, the Maldives is positioning itself as an attractive investment hub to bring in more investments in diverse sectors. A corridor to vast market opportunities in South Asia, investors can capitalize on the excellent connectivity that Maldives offers to global business hubs, making Maldives the ideal investment destination.

Backed by its position as one of the most attractive hotspots for tourism worldwide with over one million visitors annually, the Maldives holds immense potential for agriculture, fisheries, provision of financial services, establishment of ports and logistics, export-focused manufacturing activities, and renewable energy, providing investors with a wide array of diverse investment opportunities.