World of Travel: How a remote fishing archipelago became the Maldives, a global luxury powerhouse

The Maldives is often presented arsenic a cleanable representation of turquoise h2o and overwater villas, but what astir travelers acquisition contiguous is the merchandise of lone 5 decades of development. Until the 1970s, the islands functioned chiefly arsenic sportfishing communities with nary planetary aerial routes and nary meaningful infrastructure for visitors. The airstrip connected Hulhulé…