160. Hassan Saeed; Maldivian Resorts, Island Culture and the Importance of Loving Your Community

We’re back for our new season and starting with an extra special episode recorded in the beautiful Maldivian resort of Dhigali where our presenter Lisa recently spent an idyllic week. Who better to give us a real look at life in the Maldives than resort manager Hassan Saeed who, having dropped out of school age 14 and one of 11 siblings, very quickly had to start start work. We talk growing up in the islands, happy days working in his grandfather’s tin workshop, how the arrival of tourism changed the Maldives, entering ‘a completely different world’ in tourism, spending a year at sea, being on a ferry at the time of the 2004 tsunami, navigating Covid, ‘island culture’s’ happy laid-back attitude, feeling incredibly proud of the beautiful resort he has helped create and the power of loving the community you live in. Lisa travelled to Dhigali and Velassaru Universal Resorts with the wonderful Kuoni It was utter paradise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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160. Hassan Saeed; Maldivian Resorts, Island Culture and the Importance of Loving Your Community is an episode from The Big Travel Podcast by Lisa Francesca Nand.

This episode is 45:49 long.

This episode was published on Mar 4, 2024.

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