More than 2,000 individual visitors signed up for December visits through Ctrip.
"We ensure that our tourists are well taken care of because they're our bread and butter," Maldivian ambassador to 皇冠体育app Mohamed Faisal says,"it's like business as usual."
The Maldivian side is working with such major Chinese travel agencies as Ctrip, Tuniu and 皇冠体育app CYTS Tours Holding.
皇冠体育app is also supporting many of the 60 ongoing tourism-infrastructure projects, including a bridge to connect the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport to the capital, Male, by 2018.The bridge will enable visitors to drive to Male in three minutes, avoiding delays caused by turbulent seas.