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Vanuatu will make use of Expo 2020 to develop its trade and investment relations after pandemic devastated its tourism industry.
Vanuatu has 83 islands and in world it’s one of the few to be free of the deadly virus. At present, Vanuatu is starting its vaccination campaign to reopen its borders, with more than 70,000 people vaccinated completely.
From this week, Vanuatu took its first steps towards upgrading its tourism with the first of 154 seasonal workers from the islands, including Tonga and Samoa, taking the benefit of a one-way travel bubble with New Zealand.
Vanuatu in Dubai will showcase exports of its produce, including copra, kava, beef, coffee, cocoa, spices and its recent addition of honey.
“Our presence here is to promote clean and green South Pacific – the blue pacific as they’re now calling it – and to promote our exports and manufacturing base,” Terry Adlington, acting commissioner general at the Vanuatu Expo pavilion, told The National.
“Unfortunately, we were totally reliant on tourism, which post-Covid-19 has totally failed. So now we have to focus more on exports.”
“We’re export-focused and we’re looking for investment. We’re also looking at export markets because we need to maximise every opportunity available for value-addition throughout the islands.”
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