Concentrated in North Malé Atoll (9), Baa Atoll (4), Noonu Atoll (4), Raa Atoll (3), Malé (2), South Malé Atoll (1).
ENTRIES33
Cheval Blanc Randheli Private Island · Randheli, Noonu Atoll
Island
Four Seasons Private Island Maldives at Voavah · Voavah, Baa Atoll
Island
Ithaafushi — The Private Island (Waldorf Astoria) · Ithaafushi, South Malé Atoll
Island
Kudadoo Maldives Private Island · Kudadoo, Lhaviyani Atoll
Island
Sonu & Eva Malmström Shivdasani (pair) · Kunfunadhoo, Baa Atoll
Person
CONTROL1 of these entries have a recorded holder
Who owns and operates them, from the Capital section.
KSL Capital Partners · the founders’ company from 2025 · investor
Pegasus Capital Advisors · Six Senses and Evason from 2012 · investor
CHRONOLOGY21 dated events
Mohamed Umar Maniku opens Kurumba, the Maldives' first resort
George Corbin lands at Hulhulé on 16 February with nineteen Italians — the first tourist group to reach the Maldives, hosted in three houses in Malé by Mohamed Umar Maniku, Hussain Afeef and Ahmed Naseem
Kurumba Village opens on Vihamanaafushi on Tuesday 3 October — the first resort in the Maldives: thirty beachfront rooms of coral stone, coconut timber and palm thatch, and a brackish-water shower
Baros opens in December with twenty-eight sand-floor thatched cabanas, the third resort in the Maldives and the first of the six islands the government released for tourism that year
Mohamed Umar Maniku and his brother Ahmed Umar Maniku consolidate their interests as Universal Enterprises (Private) Limited ⚑
Baros installs the first desalination plant in the Maldives, putting fresh water and bathtubs in guest rooms
Kurumba is rebuilt as a full hotel — the step that moves the Maldives from cheap island holidays to the luxury market
Ahmed Siyam Mohamed opens his first Maldivian resort
Maniku founds the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry and chairs it
Sonu and Eva Shivdasani open Soneva Fushi
Crown & Champa forms in the Maldives
Six Senses is established as a separate brand by the Shivdasanis
Soneva sells its first leasehold residence in the Maldives after the law changes
Pegasus Capital buys Six Senses and Evason from the Shivdasanis
Velaa Private Island opens in the Maldives
Coco Privé opens on Kuda Hithi in the Maldives
Atmosphere opens its first Maldivian resort
OZEN opens at Maadhoo in the Maldives
Niva opens in Georgia
Joali Being opens on Bodufushi on 15 November with the Areka wellbeing centre
Mohamed Umar Maniku dies in Singapore on 30 August
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