Tourism Target on track

Tby Elenoa Baselala

Fiji Times - Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Tourism Fiji is poised to achieve its 600,000 tourist arrival target for this year.

And it hopes that the positive publicity made by overseas media will be able to attract more visitors.

TF chief executive officer Joe Tuamoto said despite falling short of its target last year, they were focused on their marketing this year in their attempt to achieve the target.

Around 540,000 tourists arrived last year.

Recently, an overseas media has highlighted Fiji to be one of the number one international travel destinations for Australian families since it was only four hours away from Sydney.

It said that Fiji offered something for every family and a trip to Fiji doesn't necessarily have to break the budget.

And it specifically mentioned the Warwick Fiji Resort, a haven for families where they can save big bucks on their next family escape where two children from ages two 11 years old, stay, play and for free.

It states that visitors can fly with our national carrier Air Pacific to Nadi and stay six nights for the price of three at Warwick Fiji Resort including full buffet breakfast daily and transfers. The media also highlighted Wakaya as one of the world's top diving spot.

According to them, like most of the best diving the world over, what makes the diving here so special, aside from the occasional visiting live-aboard, was only Wakaya's guests get to dive its pristine reefs.

Setting this reef system apart from so many is not only the startling overall health, but also the combination of both healthy hard and soft corals and then there is marine life proper.

"This is very good publicity for us," he said.

"With all this positive publicity, we are poised to reaching our target."