to keep tourism sustainable
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Conference hopes to find ways to keep tourism sustainable
THE South Pacific Tourism Conference, to be held in Apia, Samoa this month, will address issues fundamental to maintaining the South Pacific’s position as one of the world’s best destinations.
Conference organisers say focus will remain on major issues relating to the successful marketing of the thirteen South Pacific Island Nations, which make up the Tourism Council of the South Pacific, and will centre around the theme, The Pacific Heart beat ... Tourism 2000!
The Conference is expected to attract policy and decision makers from both the public and private sec tors world wide. Participation is expected to feature a number of heads of government from TCSP member countries; ministers of tourism, gov ernment officials and national
tourism offices, industry leaders in air lines, hotels, transport, finance, com munications and technology, and lead
ing internation al, national and regional tour operators.
“Like the well loved clas sics of writer Robert Louis Stevenson that have remained with us for so
long, the
tourism indus try, as the South Pacific’s prima ry source of income,
promises to be around even longer. We therefore must be ready to meet the demands of the future,” organisers say.
The conference will be held from October 19-21, 1999, and hopes to determine ways in which tourism can
remain both economically and environ mentally sustainable in the South Pacific. ■
Poolside at the Tusitala Hotel, venue of the South Pacific Tourism conference in Apia, Samoa