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Figure 3. 3 Respondent duration of employment in business/Maldives tourism industry
Number of respondents
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< 1 years2-3 years4-5 years 6-10
years
The representativeness of the sample and the respondents’ experience in the tourism
industry, combined with the fact that all respondents are senior personnel of the resorts
contribute to the strength of the survey data.
The experts that responded to the expert opinion survey included two policy makers,
two businessmen and two academics (see Table 3.3). All of the experts play prominent
roles in the Maldives’ tourism industry and four of them have been involved in
Maldives’ tourism for more than 20 years.
Table 3. 3 Description of expert respondents
EXPERTS
Number of years
Description
No. of
Participants
Policymakers 2
Businessmen 2
Academics 2
>10
years
The policy makers are government officials who played significant roles at decision
making levels. The businessmen are from two of the largest private companies of the
Maldives that are closely related to the tourism industry. One of the businessmen is the
chief executive officer of the company while the other is a director. The careers of the
two academics that participated in the survey are in tourism and culinary areas. Both
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