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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1957Vol. XXVIII, No. 3

Tourists For Tonga

p. 129 · Read in the full issue

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>RINCE TUNGI, and therefore Tonga, have become tourist minded, although Tonga, in the st has not gone out of its way encourage visitors.

Prince Tungi, who recently passed rough Suva on his way back to mga from Europe, said that mga will try to attract tourists building a hotel in Nukualofa. [t will have 24 rooms, but will designed so that it can eventually expanded to three or four times at size.

His trip to England was in nnection with arrangements for xt year’s copra exports to igland. Also to check on the ogress of vessels being built in igland and Holland for the Tonga >pra Corporation.

Prince Tungi also said that Tonga is considering chartering an air rvice to carry tourists between iva and Nukualofa. (Several months ago the Suva ikualofa flying-boat service was at Tonga’s request on ■e ground that the new vessels uld maintain essential services 'tween these points ).