BAROS MALDIVES - AN ICON TO BE CELEBRATED
2022 marks the 50th year of tourism in the Maldives and its success story of sustained growth. When Baros opened in December 1973, it was only the third resort in the Maldives, and with tourism only just starting out, its opening helped to ignite the world’s fascination with the island archipelago. In 1972, two resorts were constructed in the Maldives to accommodate a sudden influx of Italian tourists; just a year later, the government selected a further six islands to be dev