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And Japanese
Everywhere
Recent figures released by
both Samoas, New Guinea and the US Trust Territory show im pressive rises in the number of visitors to these territories,
mostly Americans and Japanese.
American Samoa’s visitors for 1969 were 13,940, a 16 per cent, increase on 1968’s total of 11,784; Western Samoa’s visitors for 1969 were 14,584, an increase of 51 per cent, over 1968 figures and NG’s visitors numbered 28,326, nearly a 30 per cent, increase on 1968’s total of 21,819.
The US Trust Territory’s 12-month total to June 30 last year was about 14,700, a 17 per cent, rise on all of 1968. Hopes were, a total of 17,000 called for the whole of 1969.
American Samoa’s average tourist age for 1969 was 43, and the average stay, three days; Western Samoa’s average tourist age was 42, and the average stay, 3.3 days.
From West Coast
Americans totalled 5,282 of Western Samoa’s 1969 visitors, and most of them came from the US West Coast, California sending 1,800.
US visitors rose 52 per cent., American Samoan, 77 per cent., NZ 31 per cent., European, 125 per cent, and Australian, 26 per cent.
NG’s tourists included 1,500 who saw the South Pacific Games in August, 1969. During the year 3,071 Americans visited the territory, while the number of Japanese visitors rose from 425 in 1968 to 826 in 1969. • The Fiji Visitors Bureau has appointed a Tokyo representative, to distribute Fiji tourist material and advise the bureau on the characteris tics of Japanese tourists, in order to build up Japanese tourism to Fiji.
The bureau’s general manager, Mr, R. J. Scott, has said that in the last two years travel restrictions on the Japanese have been lifted and they were going overseas in growing numbers. Hawaii was getting about 25,000 Japanese tourists a month and Australia expected that by 1975 it would have more visitors from Japan than from any other country, Fiji last year received 170,838 visitors (about half of whom were staying longer than a day), an in crease of about 27 per cent, on the previous year.