Fiji tourism makes large contributions to the local economy

Fiji has gained a lot of prominence as the largest pacific economies and has greatly benefited as an important tourism industry in the region. The tourism industry plays a major part in contributing to

the GDP, the Fiji Bureau of Statistics regarding arrivals are available on a timely basis than most Pacific islands as revealed from a bank data.

Annual tourist arrivals grew to 397,859 to 660,590, from 2002 through 2012 showing an average growth percentage of 6.3 per cent per year according the bank data.

It said the rapid growth in arrivals into Fiji were because of tourism infrastructure which had been built out over the past decade.

A holiday in Fiji is quite reasonable with tourist properties available at 4.4 times the average in the Pacific also eight airlines fly to the country regularly.

It said Australia continued to provide Fiji with the most tourism flows, accounting for 48 per cent of all arrivals over the past five years. This is followed by New Zealand which occupies about 16 per cent of the total visitation.

Structural changes occurring to the makeup of Fiji’s tourism sector, and those were likely to accelerate over the coming years. Fiji occupies 40 per cent of the total numbers of the tourism arrivals in the Pacific which was recorded at 1.5 millions recently.

Here too the Chinese are taking over the big market, which are becoming the fastest growing source of visitor arrivals. With low cost carriers and tour organizers Chinese outbound tourism is bound to grow and the Fiji’s tourism market is showing a strong and continuous growth and is contributing consistently and hugely to the GDP.