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Breaking Travel News Editor-in-Chief Justin Cooke sat down for an exclusive conversation with Dr Abdulla Niyaz, the Maldives’ Minister of State for Tourism and Civil Aviation, to discuss the destination’s response to the Middle East crisis and the ambitions shaping its next chapter.

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