{"id":2665,"date":"2009-03-23T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2009-03-23T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T00:53:00","slug":"tourism-fiji-applauds-pacific-blue-decision-to-launch-non-stop-flights-from-adelaide-and-melbourne-to-nadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/03\/tourism-fiji-applauds-pacific-blue-decision-to-launch-non-stop-flights-from-adelaide-and-melbourne-to-nadi\/","title":{"rendered":"TOURISM FIJI APPLAUDS PACIFIC BLUE DECISION TO LAUNCH NON-STOP FLIGHTS FROM ADELAIDE AND MELBOURNE TO NADI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fijime.com\">Tourism Fiji<\/a> Regional Director Australia Paresh Pant has roundly applauded the Pacific Blue Airlines announcement to begin non-stop services between Adelaide and Fiji and Melbourne and Fiji from 04 June 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pant said that while announcement would play a major role in enabling even more Victorians and South Australians to visit Fiji, the airline&#8217;s decision spelled particularly good news for the national tourist office&#8217;s aspirations in South Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new Pacific Blue Adelaide-Nadi service is in fact the first ever direct air service between South Australia and Fiji and is very timely given that South Australia has always represented a latent source of visitor arrivals for the destination,&#8217; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new services will undoubtedly accelerate our steadily growing visitor numbers from Australia,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pant said the national tourist office was already planning a series of key industry seminars in both states.<\/p>\n<p>Australian visitor arrivals to Fiji in 2008 grew for the third year running with last year&#8217;s figures surpassing the 2007 total by a healthy 18 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 233,801 Australians visited Fiji in the 12 month period January to December 2008 adding a further 35,581 on top of the 2007 total.<\/p>\n<p>W: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fijime.com\">www.fijime.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism Fiji Regional Director Australia Paresh Pant has roundly applauded the Pacific Blue Airlines announcement to begin non-stop services between Adelaide and Fiji and Melbourne and Fiji from 04 June 2009. Mr Pant said that while announcement would play a major role in enabling even more Victorians and South Australians to visit Fiji, the airline&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}