Centara to build 5 more resorts in Maldives

Centara Resorts and Hotels of Thailand – which already runs two tourist resorts in Maldives – revealed plans to build five more resorts in the country.

In an interview to Sun Media and Public Service Media (PSM), Vice President of Business Development for Centara International Management, Suparat Chirathivat noted that it had been five years since the company started operations in Maldives, and that they were currently making plans to increase their presence in the country by undertaking more projects – including five additional resorts.

“Its final now. The resorts will be built in K. Atoll. We want them near the airport,” said Chirathivat.

Chirathivat said that tourists who visited Maldives loved water villas – and that, they therefore planned to build more water villas in the five new resorts that will be built.

He said that it would take five years to build all five resorts – and two years to build the first two.

He said that the five resorts would have capacity of about 500 beds.

Chirathivat said that a new Centara resort would be opened in Maldives in beginning of 2017.

Centara currently operates two resorts in Maldives – Centara Grand Island Resort and Spa – built in A. Dh. Atoll and Centara Ras Fushi Resort and Spa – located in K. Atoll.

Centara Grand Island Resort and Spa – built on A. Dh. Mahchafushi, was the first resort opened outside Thailand by Centara Resorts and Hotels of Thailand.