Tourist Agents Become
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Tourists
FIJI during the past year or so has been invaded by travel agents from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. In fact, there have been almost as many travel agents as tourists visiting the Colony.
The idea that parties of travel agents be brought to look over Fiji’s tourist possibilities, looked at from a long-term point of view, no doubt is sound. But whether heavy tourist promotion is sensible, con sidering Fiji’s present accommoda tion situation must surely be ques tionable, especially as there is no sign of the accommodation situa tion in Suva being satisfied in the foreseeable future.
Or are the tourists to be kept en tirely to the country districts?
In March a party of 14 travel agents from New Zealand formed the latest contingent to look the Colony over.