{"id":7158,"date":"2010-10-11T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/record-july-figures-take-fiji-au-2010-visitor-arrivals-past-155000-mark-2\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:08:00","slug":"record-july-figures-take-fiji-au-2010-visitor-arrivals-past-155000-mark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/10\/record-july-figures-take-fiji-au-2010-visitor-arrivals-past-155000-mark-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Record July figures take Fiji AU 2010 visitor arrivals past 155,000 mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S28pyb34nCI\/AAAAAAAAIYw\/XmZdZRgyq-4\/s1600\/fijime-793316.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S28pyb34nCI\/AAAAAAAAIYw\/XmZdZRgyq-4\/s1600\/fijime-793316.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Close on 1000 Australians visited Fiji every day throughout July helping to chalk up another new monthly record for the destination.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 29,436 Australians (an average of 949 per day) visited across the month, a 19 per cent increase on the 24,729 figure achieved for the same period in 2009 according to figures released this week by the Fiji department of information.<\/p>\n<p>The strong July performance takes Fiji&#8217;s total Australian for the seven month period January to July to 156,720 in itself a 38 per cent increase over the 113,149 total achieved in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian result has again helped push Fiji&#8217;s international visitor arrival figures for the year into new ground with a 339,056 total recorded for the January-July period.<\/p>\n<p>This represents a growth of over 19.5 per cent the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Australian business now represents 53 per cent of total traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The positive Australian result was reflected across all of Fiji&#8217;s key markets.<\/p>\n<p>This included a return to positive growth for Canadian visitor arrivals \u2013 up five per cent to 1782 &#8211; for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand visitor arrivals climbed by six per cent to 13,949 while US figures rose by five per cent to reach 6560.<\/p>\n<p>The national tourist office&#8217;s ongoing efforts in several key emerging markets continued to pay off \u2013 albeit off small base numbers &#8211; with visitor arrivals from China achieving a massive 149 per cent increase.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan business grew by 45 per cent while visitor arrivals from India climbed by 15 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic from the UK\/Europe remained steady and while increases for the month only rose by 0.7 per cent, the destination is bracing itself for a very strong result in August, the traditional holiday and travel month for much of the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>Visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fijime.com\/\">www.fijime.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close on 1000 Australians visited Fiji every day throughout July helping to chalk up another new monthly record for the destination. A total of 29,436 Australians (an average of 949 per day) visited across the month, a 19 per cent increase on the 24,729 figure achieved for the same period in 2009 according to figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-7158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fiji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158","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=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}