The Maldives has been awarded as the “Best Diving Area” and “Best Dreaming Area” in the Dive & Travel Awards 2010 held during the Marine Diving Fair, Tokyo, Japan from 02 – 04th April 2010. The voting was carried out amongst the readers of the both magazines targeted to the divers; “Travel Diver” and “Marine Diving” , based on the “Reader’s Choice Award”

Maldives won the “Best Diving Area” after competing with the world famous dive favourites Palau and Ishigaakee Island. The competitors for the “Best Dreaming Area” include Palau and French Polynesia.

The awards were collected by the Maldives High Commissioner to Japan, Hon. Mr. Amir Khaleel.

Apart from the above “Island Safari Royal” and “Soleil” from the Maldives won 2nd and 3rd place respectively in the “Best Liveaboard” category.

Marine Dive Fair remains as the largest fair held in Japan targeted to the divers creating an opportunity to decide and arrange their dive holidays.

Hon. Mr. Amir Khaleel was the chief guest at the opening ceremony of the Marine Diving Fair. In his speech noted was the issue of the global warming and its impact to the Maldives and expressed his supported for the Japanese campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25% by the year 2020. He also thanked the Marine Arts Centre for their hard work in creating awareness amongst the public about the protection of the underwater.

A quiz is carried in the Maldives stand daily making it popular by having more visitors attending to participate in the quiz. This year it is expected that a total of 50,000 would visit the fair. Together with Maldives Tourism Promotion Board, Villa hotels, Sun hotels, Bandos Island Resort & Spa, Diva Maldives, Conrad Maldives and Travel Agencies; Vista Company & Travel Services, Crown Tours, Intour Maldives and Intourist Maldives participated in the fair

Source: www.visitmaldives.com

Kites co-stars and the much-talked about couple Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori are now packing their back for Maldives. Sources inform that they are taking off on 17th of April.

Hold your horses guys, the duo is flying to Maldives for an ad campaign. From sometime now Hrithik has been looking for good promotional strategy for his upcoming films and seemingly it has occurred to him in the form of an ad-campaign. But what we hear now is that Hrithik has used his good offices and got Barbara into the ad.

The ad is likely to air around the same time when Kites will hit the theatres on May 21. It will definitely give a leg-up to the publicity and promotion of their film. Apart from that Hrithik would also get some more moments together with Barbara.