Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Voi 61 No 5

The News Magazine

June 1991

Tourism Report

ISSUES: The Year of the Big Deal: a look at the state of tourism in the region, the problems, the strategies and future markets 18 Island airlines’ new task: tourism targets set by the island nations for the next decade have given regional airlines a whole new challenge 23 Ecotourism: a trend that could decide the long-term fate of tourism 19 OPPORTUNITIES: Cultural cure for high-cost holidays: and a golden opportunity for small businesses 21 Potential for SP cruising; a new PATA study looks at the prospects for cruise operators in the region 20 GROWTH; Fiji’s ‘Biggies’ on the backburner: multi-million dollar develop ments on hold 25. Where the growth is taking place; Nadi, and the islands 35, EIE on schedule 3-7 Cook Islands: New Zealand aid is decreasing, putting pressure on tourism 38 OVERSEAS VIEWS: Settling our fate from afar; Japanese and US politicians, businesses and media swing the pendulum on SP tourism 27. How US travel agents view trips to our islands 29 INNOVATIONS: News for watersports wallflowers: a product for non swimmers who want to snorkel 40

Focus;

Western Samoa; friendly, unique but filthy 37

Tidbits;

Solomons; setting a tourism target 45 Niue: landing rights for Fiji negotiated 23 Tonga: a name change and a international service for the national airline 45

The Region

Tahiti: Flosse on tourism and the future Palau: independence signals, and a push toward change - Q Elections: new faces in FSM, uncertainty in Kiribati corruption alleged in Western Samoa, 17 New Zealand: The French return

Letters 4 Jemima Garrett: Australia 5 David Barber: New Zealand 6 Futa Helu; The islands 7 Margot O’Neill: Washington 8 Business: Promise in PNG mines Fiji stepping stone to a tax haven 41 Shipping: Travel by Tongan ferry 46 Sport: Samoan Rugby shakes off the ‘bad boy’ tag 50 Books: testimonies of nuclear times 55 People: PNG’s Tsiamalili 57

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