{"id":627375,"date":"2024-01-10T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=627375"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T04:35:10","slug":"maldivian-tour-operators-panic-as-indians-cancel-flight-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maldivian-tour-operators-panic-as-indians-cancel-flight-bookings\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldivian tour operators panic as Indians cancel flight bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diplomatic rift between India and Maldives, coupled with the suspension of flight bookings on one of India\u2019s major travel portals, has sent jitters down the spine of tour operators in the island nation. <\/p>\n<p>The Maldivian Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (MATATO), a forum for travel agents, has stressed that the Indian market is important to the success of tourism in Maldives. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indian market remains an indispensable force in the success of the Maldivian tourism sector, providing vital support to guest houses and small and medium enterprises (SMEs),\u201d MATATO said in a letter to Nishant Pitti, chief executive officer (CEO), EaseMyTrip, the online travel company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diplomatic rift between India and Maldives, coupled with the suspension of flight bookings on one of India\u2019s major travel portals, has sent jitters down the spine of tour operators in the island nation. The Maldivian Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (MATATO), a forum for travel agents, has stressed that the Indian market is important to the success of tourism in Maldives. \u201cThe Indian market remains an indispensable force in the success of the Maldivian tourism sector, providing vital support to guest houses and small and medium enterprises (SMEs),\u201d MATATO said in a letter to Nishant Pitti, chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}