Minister Ali Waheed has announced that tourist scouts will
start their services from January 2020 onwards.
The Tourism Ministry and the Councils will conduct the
program as a joint project between them.
The training of the tourism scouts is ongoing and will be
completed before the end of December 2019.
The initiative of the tourist scout program aims to secure
the safety of the tourist arrivals and guarantee a safe environment for the
tourists vacationing at Maldives.
The tourist scouts will initially be stationed at islands prone
to incidents prior to being introduced across all over the country, informed
the Minister. The islands were chosen after considering the bed numbers and
accidents reported.
Water safety trained lifeguards will be sent off to the
islands to push this initiative. According to the Tourism Ministry, for the
first phase of the project, 50 lifeguards will be introduced to 19 islands,
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