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[–] Linkerbaan 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Nearly 11,000 Israelis visited Maldives last year, which was 0.6% of the total tourist arrivals.

Very nice. It's not just a symbolic boycot

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A symbolic boycott is important. They still picked a side in this mess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Surprisingly high.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

0.6% sounds exactly like a symbolic boycott.

[–] Linkerbaan 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As the Maldives is a tourist resort 0.6% of the most major income is pretty big

https://www.budgetyourtrip.com/maldives

You should plan to spend around** $299 (MVR4,623) per day on your vacation in the Maldives.** This is the average daily price based on the expenses of other visitors

Even assuming that every tourist stays one single day that would be 3.3 million dollars. And I'd wager most tourists stay longer than that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, admittedly, $3.3 Million is low-balling it, and that the real figure is probably something like $20 Million, assuming that each tourist stays ~1 week and spends $299/day as you have quoted.

But these numbers don't mean anything in a vacuum. More context is needed to understand the actual impact of this decision.

The Maldives have a GDP of $6.55 Billion. Assuming that this costs them $20 Million in tourism revenue, that's only a 0.3% drop in GDP. The annual fluctuation in GDP is ±9%. The impact of banning Israeli tourists is less than a rounding error on the Economy of the Maldives.

[–] Linkerbaan -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

An entire economy is made up of many parts. 0.3% doesn't sound like much but with big numbers it adds up.

A sacrifice of 20 million dollars is more than just symbolism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The problem here is that $20 million isn't a "big number" compared to $6.55 Billion.

Believe whatever you want, I can't stop you, but you are objectively wrong.

[–] Linkerbaan 0 points 5 months ago

Let's pretend the Maldives is America. Would you say that America losing 0.3% of its entire GDP over a boycott is "symbolic?