The Maldives expects the number of Chinese visitor arrivals this year to recover to the pre-pandemic level, with an increase of 40 percent compared with last year, as new bilateral agreements with China are instituted, Fathmath Thaufeeq, managing director of the Maldives Marketing & Public Relations Corp (MMPRC), the national tourism office of the Maldives, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview on Thursday. ....