The London-based Indian Ocean specialist features the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Seychelles, providing room bookings and ground handling support to a growing number of operators and agents.

Partnering with Conrad Maldives for the event, trade guests were introduced to what has been dubbed as the “world’s first underwater residence”, The Muraka.

Opened at the Conrad at the turn of this year, The Muraka is a two-level, three-bedroom residence which includes an undersea bedroom and living space, with Hummingbird one of the first partners to sell The Muraka.

Hummingbird has been engaging in more digital activity to grow its trade base, including holding regular webinars for agents to share updates on resorts in the Indian Ocean, and joint chief executive Alex Chambers highlighted the increase in bookings the company was seeing in the ultra-luxury sector; the company is also now featuring two properties in Madagascar – Constance Tsarabanjina and Time+Tide Miavana.