Universal Enterprises is the pioneering force that transformed the Maldives from obscurity into one of the world’s most sought-after travel destinations, while actively diversifying across industries and service sectors. In the 1960s, an international development survey claimed the Maldives unsuitable for tourism. Few would have disagreed: the pristine archipelago was indisputably breathtaking, but with little national infrastructure to speak of. Nonetheless, a handful of like-minded entrepreneurs believed otherwise They could not have predicted the extent to which the Maldives would grow as a tourist magnet, but their bold initiative jump-started the development path that has placed the island nation on the map as one of the most desired travel destinations in the world.