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Category: Letter from CEO

Tourism Talanoa: Balancing The Management Scales

March 12, 2021October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Balancing The Management Scales

FHTA, 12 March 2021 – Earlier this week, the world commemorated International Women’s Day with its theme of “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world,” which

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Tourism Talanoa: Letting Go and Starting Again

March 5, 2021October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Letting Go and Starting Again

FHTA, 4 March 2021 – A recent local article repeated a statement that around 2000 tourism workers, who have been on leave without pay due to the economic downturn in

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Fiji Immigration: Clarification on Permits

February 26, 2021October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong COVID-19, Letter from CEO
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Tourism Talanoa: The Change Expected or the Change Forced

February 26, 2021October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: The Change Expected or the Change Forced

FHTA, 26 February 2021 – “How many human beings have to die before some people understand the gravity of the situation?” The plea from British author Wayne Gerard Trotman is

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Tourism Talanoa: Keeping Fiji Safe is Everyone’s Business

February 19, 2021February 22, 2021 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Keeping Fiji Safe is Everyone’s Business

FHTA, 18 February 2021 – Preparing to restart business at some stage this year from the imposed hibernation of the past year will be a challenge for many in tourism

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Tourism Talanoa: Our Sustainability

February 12, 2021February 22, 2021 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Our Sustainability

FHTA, 11 February 2021 – Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw said, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” And so, change we

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Tourism Talanoa: Confusing the New Reality

February 5, 2021October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Confusing the New Reality

FHTA, 4 February 2021 – Is 2021 the year that travel rebounds? Travel experts say there is increasing confidence for international travel in the second half of the year, but

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Tourism Talanoa: Belief, Relief and Expectations of some Grief

February 1, 2021October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Belief, Relief and Expectations of some Grief

FHTA, 28 January 2021 – While fear might help us survive, when mixed with uncertainty, it can often lead to anxiety. And anxiety can be contagious.

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Tourism Talanoa: When a Shot in the Arm is What’s Needed

January 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: When a Shot in the Arm is What’s Needed

FHTA, 21 January 2021 – By mid-2020, most economists around the world had predicted that the worst economic impacts would be felt later in the year and that Government imposed

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Tourism Talanoa: Strengthening the Tourism Industry

January 15, 2021February 22, 2021 Glen Vavaitamana 2021 Archive, Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Strengthening the Tourism Industry

FHTA, 14 January 2021 – With all the lessons we’ve learned over the past 10 or so months, are we, as an industry, prepared for what the year 2021 has

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