In 2022, Fiji will welcome 500,000 visitors

 Thursday, August 18, 2022 

According to an official said on Tuesday, Fiji is anticipated to welcome 500,000 tourists from abroad in 2022. The tourism statistics are looking quite good. In 2022, around half a million tourists are expected to visit the island nation, Shaheen Ali, the Permanent Secretary for Tourism, was saying the same at the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation.

He said that for the first half of 2022, they have improved more than half their tourism numbers from the same time in 2019. Of the same month pre-pandemic times, arrivals in June were 73 percent. They are expecting at least 500,000 visitors, by the end of this year, with complete recuperation to attain by 2024.

The tourism industry of Fiji’s is in a good place at this moment, he said, mentioning that the economy of his country is predicted to grow up by 12.4 per cent in 2022, perked up by tourism, reports Xinhua news agency.

The tourism industry of Fiji reported for almost 40 per cent of the gross domestic product of this south pacific country.

The sector employs roughly 150,000 people and is the spine of the financial system along with being the biggest foreign exchange earner.

This island nation has a population of almost 900,000. On a per year basis, before the pandemic, it received more than 800,000 foreign tourists.

Tourism Fiji, in May 2022, introduced its Corporate Plan 2022-2024, which set a clear direction for the industry and its partners in the next few years.

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