Stronger links
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with Japan
THE Fiji Hotels Association (FHA) has introduced weekly language lessons to the industry in Nadi, through a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volun teer, Keiko Mizuno. Mizuno, from Gifu in Japan, teaches Japanese at the School of Hotel and Catering in Suva and through the University of the South Pacific. She translated editorial for the Fiji Focus lift-out in 2000 special copies of Pacific Islands Monthly which are being transported to Japan by Air Pacific and distributed by the Fiji Visitors Bureau.
Air Pacific launched a television cam paign in Japan to back up its second weekly Tokyo/Nadi flight which started on April 25. The biggest sponsor so far has been Air Terminal Services with 5150,000. The Fiji Visitors Bureau con tributed SIOO,OOO to the campaign, and brought 100 Japanese travel agents to Fiji for five days last month. â–ˇ
Mizuno: breaking the language barrier