From a young age, a ticket to paradise

When Ahmed Asim was a boy his career path had already been laid out before him

"My job is to make people feel at home, literally, since this has been my home for the past 30 years," says Ahmed Asim, room director of the St. Regis Vommuli hotel in the Maldives.

Between his generation and that of his parents, his country has turned from a gathering of specks in the Indian Ocean to one of the world's best known and most desired escapes.