Blanket Bay’s reputation as this region’s ultimate alpine escape and New Zealand’s finest luxury lodge continues to be upheld with its win last Friday night, 2 September 2011, at the hotel industry’s prestigious HM Awards. Spanning Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands the HM Awards are this region’s only independent benchmark for excellence in […]
Tourism Fiji has this week launched a dedicated Australian version of the global ‘Fiji Me’ website intended to make visiting the destination even easier than ever before. Located at www.fijime.com.au, as would be expected the new website is literally awash with information truly reflecting the multi-faceted nature of the destination – from family fun and […]
Fiji National carrier Air Pacific is bringing the first ever Fijian World Paddle Challenge and some of the biggest names in world paddling to Namotu Island Fiji and its national carrier Air Pacific are hosting some of the world’s biggest names in the sport of Stand Up Paddling (SUP) this November. To be held just […]
16 August 2011 Sigatoka River Safari showed helping the villages they work with still remains a number one priority for the company even five years after it first began, with the recent opening of Mavua Kindergarten, in the village of Mavua, Fiji. With 40 children under 7 years of age living in the village of […]
Fiji will be the venue for the Channel Nine’s Today Show’s national Australian weather reports this week. Scheduled from tomorrow (02 August), the program will feature five daily crosses broadcast live from hotels and resorts on Viti Levu and in the Mamanuca Islands. An estimated national daily audience peaking at around the 2.7 million mark […]
HM MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE BY RODERICK EIME IN FIJI In a scene reminiscent of that ‘80s beer commercial “They said you’d never make it”, Jenny and Peter Bourke built their dream of luxury Fiji on a run-down remote island in the middle of nowhere that no one wanted to touch. Fiji born and bred, Jenny, reels […]
Hot on the heels of its record breaking 2010 performance which saw more than 318,000 Australians visit Fiji across the year, the destination has kicked off 2011 in strong form with Australian visitor arrivals for January closing in on the 26,000 mark. Figures released by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics this week show a total […]
Radisson Resort Fiji Denarau Island wins the Restaurant and Dining Award at the 2010 Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards, awarded on the 25th February 2011. This was the 14th annual AON Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards. The chief guest at this prestigious event was The Fijian Prime Minister along with 350 guests from all walks […]
Tourism Fiji is getting ready to celebrate a record year for the destination with November 2010 statistics taking the destination’s Australian visitor arrival tally to just 11,100 shy of a best-ever 300,000 annual result. Figures released this week by Fiji’s Bureau of Statics show a total of 23,615 Australians visited Fiji across November, the figure […]
Blue Lagoon Cruises has been presented with the prestigious ‘Most Preferred Venue – Pacific Islands 2010’ award while participating at the Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings EXPO (AIME) in Melbourne. The iconic Fiji boutique cruise operator beat off strong international opposition to take out the honour, presented to the company as part of the influential EventConnect.com […]