MAJOR EUROPEAN MARKETS
From the top 10 market generators in the region, France, Russia and Switzerland showed negative growth rates compared with the same period in 2014. Russian market has been declining dramatically over the last 2 years and has recorded a huge negative growth of -39.2% compared to the third quarter of 2014.
Germany stands as the highest market generator in the region with 8% of shares from the total arrivals to the Maldives. During the third quarter the highest arrivals were observed in the month of September for Germany with 8140 arrivals.
Second best performer in the region is United Kingdom with 7.5% shares and observed a growth of 3% compared to the third quarter of 2014.
Italian Market was the third best market in the region with 5.1% shares and recorded a growth of 8.4% compared to 2014.
French market was the fourth best market generator from the region with 3.4% shares of the total arrivals. However French market has been declining its performance and recorded a negative growth of -17.5% compared to 2014.
The 5th best contributor in the European region is Russian market with 3.4% shares, similarly to French market it has been declining over the past 2 years and it recorded a huge drop in arrivals with -39% compared to the same quarter in 2014.