Backing for Levuka, Lomaiviti

FIJI SUN - 22 March 2010

Tourism Fiji chief executive officer Josefa Tuamoto has pledged his organisation’s support to efforts to increase awareness of the Levuka-Lomaiviti region’s rich tourism potential to an international audience. Mr Tuamoto’s offer of support follows his meeting last week with the Levuka-Lomaiviti Tourist Association at Mary’s Holiday Lodge in Levuka. Following the meeting Mr Tuamoto said the national tourist office would provide funding to help the region create and instigate a rolling series of dedicated events designed to showcase the region in the lead up to “Visit Fiji 2012’. He said the national tourist office would help the local tourism association with the production of a dedicated Lomaiviti brochure complete with map, information and proposed itineraries for visitors. Additional support will include creation of an online presence via Tourism Fiji’s website and Facebook. Mr Tuamoto said his visit to Levuka was one of several he would be making to parts of the archipelago in coming months. These visits, he said, were part of a strategy intended to see Tourism Fiji work more closely with all regional tourism bodies in order to help spread the benefits of tourism across an even wider section of the Fijian community in the lead up to ‘Visit Fiji 2012’' and beyond.