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Written By : PETER LOMAS. Vanuatu’s tourism office says the country may still be seen as an expensive destination following data that show a slump in overall visitor numbers. The number of visitors from Australia dropped by 30 percent.

Written By : PETER LOMAS. Make that Savusavu trip. Forget those stories about the cyclone. The country’s “Hidden Paradise” is busy with activity. Savusavu town and tourism operations along its adjacent coast were largely and luckily sheltered by the hills as Cyclone Tomas passed to the east. Savusavu is getting on with life. There is [...]

Written By : PETER LOMAS. HOT SPRINGS HOTEL The Hot Springs sits on the hillside just above the town’s waterfront-hugging single main street. It is a prime position. Near the geothermal springs that give it its name, and with a spectacular view of the town and waters below. Local identities Tim (an airline pilot) and [...]

Written By : PETER LOMAS. GO PEARLING Visit the J Hunter Pearls Fiji headquarters in the main street of Savusavu town to see their award-winning pearls. Get a tour showing how they are produced. Buy some if they take your fancy. Company founder Justin Hunter had a dream. Why not, he thought, grow pearls that [...]

Written By : PETER LOMAS. Tourism Fiji, Air Pacific and Fiji Islands Hotel and Tourism Association’s Dive Committee are sponsoring the 7th annual Tourism Fiji Dive Fiesta. It is from 22nd to 28th May. This promotes a week-long showcase event for worldwide dive and adventure wholesalers and media. The Dive Fiesta’ will highlight Fiji’s spectacular [...]

Written By : PETER LOMAS. Savusavu Tourism Association recently produced a colourful pamphlet promoting the area. It was published through support from Pacific Sun, Air Pacific’s domestic offshoot airline. The association says: “Founded before the Deed of Cession, Savusavu was originally established as a centre for sailing ships trading in sandalwood, beche-de-mer and copra. “Savusavu [...]

Written By : Sun Fiji Newsroom. Air Pacific is preparing for an early Christmas. Kiritimati (or Christmas Island) that is. The national airline is finalising plans to in May return to the eastern Kiribati island of Kiritimati, one of the world’s largest coral atolls. It will stopover there on the way to and from Hawaii [...]

Written By : Sun Fiji Newsroom. What’s a three-letter word beginning with S that’s one of the fastest growing areas of our tourism and hospitality industry? No, not THAT WORD. Think of a spa. Spas have become an essential part of the many attractions Fiji offers on the global travel stage. It’s a boom industry. [...]

Written By : Sun Fiji Newsroom. In Suva, the rain buckets down. Clouds cling to the hills. “Don’t worry,” the Pacific Sun Twin Otter pilot says at Nausori Airport as the big wet pours on the runway. “It’s fine up in Taveuni.” Forty-five minutes from Suva’s gloom, the Twin Otter circles and descends above Somosomo [...]

Written By : Sun Fiji Newsroom. As recommended by Ric and Do Cammick, of Taveuni Island Resort and Spa Bouma Falls Park The Bouma National Heritage Park is the ideal way for the adventurous to spend a whole day, or a few hours, exploring. Situated on the eastern side of the island, it is just [...]