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Three Cinnamon Maldives resorts earn Tripadvisor top 10% recognition
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Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts Maldives said three of its island properties landed in Tripadvisor’s 2026 Travellers’ Choice Awards, placing them among the top 10% of hotel listings worldwide.
Go Ocean launches private island buyouts in the Maldives
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Go Ocean has introduced Private Island Buyout Experiences that let groups reserve entire resort islands in the Maldives for customized luxury travel.
Centara Maldives resorts win multiple global travel awards
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Centara Hotels & Resorts Maldives says four of its island properties earned a string of international honors in the past quarter, spanning luxury, family travel and guest review awards.
Heritance Aarah’s Ralu and Baani win Wine Spectator honor
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Two overwater restaurants at Heritance Aarah in the Maldives have earned Wine Spectator’s 2026 Award of Excellence for their wine programs.
Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa lands top reef honor in Travel + Leisure awards
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Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa was named among the Maldives’ Top 4 Best House Reefs in the Travel + Leisure Luxury Awards Asia Pacific 2026. The recognition spotlights the resort’s 360° house reef, a draw for snorkeling and diving that also…
Grand Park Kodhipparu Maldives lands two World Travel Awards nominations
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Grand Park Kodhipparu, Maldives was nominated for Maldives’ Leading Boutique Resort and Indian Ocean’s Leading Villa Resort in the 2026 World Travel Awards.
Heritance launches Sri Lanka culinary series with chef Sav Perera
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Heritance Hotels & Resorts has launched a five-part culinary and cultural series, A Week Worth Tasting, with Sri Lankan-born chef Savindri Perera.
Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa adds its first Michelin-starred dining events
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Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa will host two Michelin-starred Masters of Food & Wine dinners on July 17 and July 20, 2026, with IDAM by Alain Ducasse Executive Chef Fabrice Rosso in the Maldives.
Maldivian Fishermen Wins Silver A' Design Award
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Aishath Naajila’s documentary on traditional pole-and-line tuna fishing in the Maldives earned Silver in A’ Design Award’s Movie, Video and Animation Design category on June 18, 2026. The recognition spotlights sustainable fishing, cultural…
Grand Park Kodhipparu Maldives touts new summer offers after Travel + Leisure recognition
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Grand Park Kodhipparu Maldives is leaning harder into boutique luxury with three honors at the 2026 Travel + Leisure Luxury Awards Asia Pacific and a new summer campaign that adds value to direct bookings.
Centara Mirage Lagoon Maldives wins Travel + Leisure family resort honor
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Centara Mirage Lagoon Maldives was named one of the Best Resorts for Families at the Travel + Leisure Luxury Awards 2026, highlighting the Maldives property’s focus on multi-generational travel.
OUTRIGGER Maldives Maafushivaru ranks in Tripadvisor’s top 1% worldwide
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OUTRIGGER Maldives Maafushivaru Resort has been named a 2026 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best winner, placing No. 5 in Asia and No. 21 worldwide among all-inclusive resorts.
Centara Grand Lagoon Maldives hosts Australia-Maldives flight launch event
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Centara Grand Lagoon Maldives marked the start of the first direct Australia-Maldives air service by hosting a Luxury Escapes-led familiarisation visit and media activation in the Maldives.
Grand Park Kodhipparu says summer is the Maldives' hidden luxury season
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Grand Park Kodhipparu Maldives is marking its ninth anniversary by pitching summer as an overlooked sweet spot for travel in the islands.
Mandapa joins Marriott’s luxury dining series in Bali
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Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Ubud, Bali, will host Marriott International’s Luxury Dining Series from Sept. 9-11 as part of a five-stop Asia program running August through October.
The European releases its Summer 2026 edition
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The European’s Summer 2026 edition is now available in print and digital, with two world exclusives and wide-ranging coverage of AI, finance, cybersecurity, climate, travel and lifestyle.
Report says sexual violence survivors in South Asia face steep barriers to compensation
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A new SAMAJ report finds that survivors of sexual violence across South Asia often cannot access the compensation they are legally entitled to because schemes are underfunded, slow and unevenly enforced.
Hotel returns shift from occupancy to rate across five markets
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eFinancialModels says hotel performance in the U.S., France, Italy, Japan and the UAE is being driven by room rates rather than room volume, but for different reasons in each market.
Heritance Aarah’s overwater restaurants win Wine Spectator honor
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Ralu Overwater Restaurant and Baani at Heritance Aarah in the Maldives have earned Wine Spectator’s 2026 Award of Excellence, putting the resort’s wine programs among 2,083 winners worldwide.
Borgo Monchiero Heritage by Atmosphere set to open in Italy
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Borgo Monchiero Heritage by Atmosphere will open July 16 in Langhe, Italy, after a restoration of an 18th-century monastery into a 25-key boutique hotel.
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