Seaplanes can cater to a variety of air transportation requirement. The use of seaplanes in tourist destinations that are close to large water bodies like sea, lake, etc. is an obvious application. Maldives, for example, has a fairly large seaplane operation catering to the tourism industry ther. Seaplanes can also be used to access remote areas that may not have runways for normal planes to land but may have suitable water bodies on which seaplanes can land.