Where the tourists go
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As well as the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA), a largish organisation based in the United States, but with regional directors throughout the area, South Pacific countries have an organisation called the Tourism Council to help their developments.
Both work closely together ex changing information and assist ance. From the Tourism Council come the figures in the accom panying table showing where Pacific tourists go:
The figures give only an indi cation of tourist volumes since they cover arrivals of all kinds.
In general all destinations, with the exceptions of Fiji, Vanuatu and the French territories, showed declines in arrivals, and the outlook for 1983 was then considered to be gloomy. Most now expect a notable upswing in business as western, and particu larly Australian economic for tunes improve.
Destination 1979 1982 American Samoa 68,310 52,087 Cook Islands 19,722 17,464 Fiji 188,740 203,636 New Caledonia 72,651 85,751 Niue est. 1000 est. 600 Papua New Guinea 32,684 32,505 Solomon Islands 9,722 11,171 Tahiti 101,194 113,924 Tonga 12,189 12,443 Vanuatu 30.458 32,180 Western Samoa 55,377 32,752