User:Jacob.h.andersson/Kuredu Island

Kuredu Island Resort is the first resort to open its doors to foreign tourist in the northern region of the Maldives. Located on the northern reef of Lhaviyani atoll in the Republic of Maldives. This area is famous for its beauty and its abundant fish life, both local and migratory. It is located 80 miles north of the Ibrahim Nassir International Airport and 35 minutes by seaplane. The guests are able to choose from three resorts and nine categories of accommodation. The hotel was founded in December in 1988 and is the second largest resort in the Maldives, complete with a six-hole golf course, a state of the art, luxury live-aboard, one of the world’s biggest dive centers, a professional AstroTurf football pitch, excursions, a medical center with a decompression chamber and much more.

General Information
The Island is run by Kuredu Holdings Pvt. Ltd. It has a circumference of 3.5km. It is surrounded by beaches and has vegetation as well. There is wild life such as rabbits, 38 different species of birds, lizards and extraordinary marine life. The Island is accessible only by boat or air transfer. The island is in possession of several boats and guests arrive with Trans Maldivian Airways. There is a state of the art dive center, the biggest dive center in the Maldives with a decompression chamber. On top of that there is a water sports center.

History
The resort was opened on the fourth of December 1988. Before it was a hotel, the island was a camp for divers who wanted to reach the far corners of the world. The environment in this area was almost completely untouched from modern life and to get to the island was by boat and it took around 20 hours. When the hotel was built, the rooms were very simple beach bungalows and there was just one restaurant and bar in the beginning. Helicopters started flying in guests by 1990 and stopped flying shortly after. The sea airplane started flying guests in 1994 instead of the helicopters but only around 10% of the guest came by plane, the others still arrived by boat.. In September in 1998 the large swimming pool was build and with that came the pool bar and the large deck. 2002 was a big year for renovations; the golf course was built, along with the Sangu resort on the island. This means the water villas as well as the Sangu restaurant and bar. In 2007 the O-resort was build and that year the island got the Monsoon liveaboard diving yacht. The year after the Sulthan Pool Villas was built. The year 2009 Trans Maldivian Airways took over after Maldivian Air Taxi to bring guests to the island. Kuredu Island has had a very vivid life and continues to grow.

Climate
The weather in this area is very constant. There are two seasons, summer and monsoon. During the summer period, the sun shines and temperature is usually in between 30 to 35 degrees centigrade. During the monsoon season, the temperature does not change a lot, however, there are showers of rain that appear sometimes during the day but it does not rain constantly. The monsoon season will usually be in between June and July as well as a milder one in December.

Environmental Issues
All around the Maldives, beach erosion is a problem. to stop this most resort possess a sand pump. The islands keep changing constantly so it is necessary to be able to control the shape of the island with a sand pump. To prevent the erosion, there are several wave breakers on every island as well. These, if placed correctly, have the ability to alter the currents around the islands. Every island struggles with this problem; however, there are solutions as mentioned above.

Littering is also an issue. Since many local islands do not have any garbage disposal facilities, many times garbage gets dumped in the ocean. Resorts in the Maldives are very good at disposing their waste however and many help local islands to get rid of its waste since it is in the resorts best interest to keep the oceans as beautiful it currently is.

The final, large environmental problem is over fishing. it is illegal to fish with nets in the Maldives, however it is still being done. The problem with net fishing is that there is no way of controlling what gets caught in the net. Many times turtles, dauphins and sharks get tangled in the net and unless a resort or dive center finds out and cuts them free, they will die. it is difficult to control this activity from a legal stand point since the Maldivian coast guard lack the resources to fight the problem.