One
point of contact
The same person in Malé holds the file from first quote to the day your clients fly home — no ticket queue, no handover.
About Island Life
Your Maldives desk, based in Malé
We are a Maldivian destination management company. Retail agents and tour operators sell the islands; we contract them, price them, move the clients between them and pick up the phone when something changes.
- 264
- Properties contracted
- 30
- Atolls covered
- 0
- Offices
Who we are
A local partner, not a booking screen
The Maldives is 1,192 islands, and almost none of them can be sold from a rate sheet alone. Which house reef is worth the swim, which transfer window collapses in bad weather, which property will move on price in low season — that knowledge lives here, with the people who grew up on these atolls and visit the islands every month.
Agencies come to us because it replaces twenty reservations desks with one: one contract, one quote, one transfer plan, one invoice.
Contracting & rates
- Direct contracts with resorts and guesthouses
- Net or commissionable, whichever you sell on
- Season, board basis and market held in one sheet
- Quotes back the same working day
Transfers & ground
- Seaplane, domestic and speedboat seats held
- Meet-and-greet at Velana International
- Missed-connection cover while clients are in the air
- One transfer plan per booking, not three
Excursions & extras
- Our own guides and boats, not the resort desk
- Honeymoon, anniversary and dive add-ons
- Priced into the itinerary before departure
- Rescheduled free of charge if weather turns
Why agencies keep us
The difference is who answers
24h
quote turnaround
Rates back within one working day on anything in the portfolio, including transfers and excursions in the same document.
GMT+5
on the ground
We are in the same time zone as the resorts, so a problem at check-in is solved by someone who can call the island directly.
Recognition
See the awards Top Producer five years running, and the contracts behind it
Travel Trade Maldives has named us Top Producer every year since 2021. That, the awards around it, and the accreditations that sit behind them.
Open an account
Start with one enquiry
Send us a live brief — dates, budget, party — and see the quote come back. Agency terms follow once you like how we work.