Fiji tourism on course for record year
Fiji has released it tourism figures for the month of October, which showed that the island nation welcomed 59,290 international visitors in October 2010, with strong percentage gains achieved, particularly in Australia, China and India. The figures, released by the Fiji Bureau of Statistic, represent an 11.4%increase over the 53,243 achieved in October 2009, and brings total visitor arrivals for the period January-October 2010 to 527,822 - 17.6% higher than the same period in 2009.
This growth means that Fiji is on target to attract record breaking numbers across 2010. The country’s Minister of Tourism, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, said that provisional figure show that Fiji will have welcomed some 620,000 international visitors in 2010.
Australian numbers again continued to dominate Fiji’s overall visitor arrival picture. The 32,101 figure recorded for the month constitutes a huge 54.1% of the total arrivals seen in October. Australian visitor arrivals for the 10-month period increased to 263,494 – 6% than the 248,589 Aussies who visited Fiji for the entire 12-month period January-December 2009.
New Zealand arrivals to Fiji in October also increased, the figures showing a total of 9,368 New Zealanders visited the destination across the month. This figure represents a 6.5% increase over the 8,795 achieved for the same period in 2009 pushing Fiji’s Kiwi intake for the 10-month period January-October 2010 to 84,869. This equates to a 7.7% increase over the 78,778 total achieved across the corresponding 10-month period in 2009.
US figures too showed positive growth increasing to 4,246 for the month - a gain of 7.2% over the 3,961 achieved for the same period in 2009 - bringing US arrivals for the period January-October 2010 to 43,960. This represents a 3.9%increase over the 42,313 achieved for the corresponding 10 month period in 2009.
Tourism Fiji and its industry partners continuing efforts in China and India have continued to bear fruit with both countries registering impressive percentage gains, 58.3% and 51.0% respectively.
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