{"id":1802,"date":"2010-09-13T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2010-09-13T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T22:49:00","slug":"air-pacific-earns-praise-from-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/09\/air-pacific-earns-praise-from-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Pacific earns praise from Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelmole.com\/index.php\">Travel Mole<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tourism Fiji has attributed strong growth in the number of Chinese visitors to direct Hong Kong-Nadi services established by Air Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Fiji CEO Josefa Tuamoto has applauded Air Pacific\u2019s decision to add a third service on the route from next December.<\/p>\n<p>Tuamoto said the airline\u2019s decision to implement the Hong Kong-Nadi service ten months ago had been more than vindicated by the substantial increase in Chinese visitor arrivals Fiji had welcomed since Air Pacific commenced flying on the route.<\/p>\n<p>Tuamoto said while the numbers came off a relatively small base, the 7,684 Chinese visitor arrivals recorded for the period January to June 2010 represented a close on 32 percent increase over the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has effectively pushed China into place as our eighth main source of international arrivals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuamoto also paid tribute to the efforts the local tourism industry in raising Fiji\u2019s profile in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve put in some very hard yards to attract and engage this prime source of visitor arrivals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, included attending major consumer and trade events and staging travel agents workshops in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Tourism Fiji launched the national tourist office\u2019s first ever Fiji travel planner for the Chinese market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source: Travel Mole Tourism Fiji has attributed strong growth in the number of Chinese visitors to direct Hong Kong-Nadi services established by Air Pacific. Tourism Fiji CEO Josefa Tuamoto has applauded Air Pacific\u2019s decision to add a third service on the route from next December. Tuamoto said the airline\u2019s decision to implement the Hong Kong-Nadi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fiji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}