FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Resilience and Adaptation – Unlocking the Secrets of Fiji’s Coral Reefs

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Resilience and Adaptation – Unlocking the Secrets of Fiji’s Coral Reefs

This week, let’s explore the notion of tourism leakages in Fiji and examine how community-based tourism initiatives are helping to bridge the gap between tourism revenue and grassroots development.

Leakages refer to the money that is lost from the local economy due to the outflow of funds to foreign-owned businesses, individuals, and governments overseas.

The leakages occur when the revenue generated by tourism is spent outside the local economy, instead of being reinvested in local businesses, infrastructure, and services.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Tackling the Plastic Threat to Tourism

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Tackling the Plastic Threat to Tourism

This week, let’s explore the notion of tourism leakages in Fiji and examine how community-based tourism initiatives are helping to bridge the gap between tourism revenue and grassroots development.

Leakages refer to the money that is lost from the local economy due to the outflow of funds to foreign-owned businesses, individuals, and governments overseas.

The leakages occur when the revenue generated by tourism is spent outside the local economy, instead of being reinvested in local businesses, infrastructure, and services.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: From Backpacker Haven to Luxury Destination: Wailoaloa’s Decade-Long Evolution Unveiled

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This week, let’s explore the notion of tourism leakages in Fiji and examine how community-based tourism initiatives are helping to bridge the gap between tourism revenue and grassroots development.

Leakages refer to the money that is lost from the local economy due to the outflow of funds to foreign-owned businesses, individuals, and governments overseas.

The leakages occur when the revenue generated by tourism is spent outside the local economy, instead of being reinvested in local businesses, infrastructure, and services.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Empowering Local Businesses through Cruise Tourism

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Empowering Local Businesses through Cruise Tourism

This week, let’s explore the notion of tourism leakages in Fiji and examine how community-based tourism initiatives are helping to bridge the gap between tourism revenue and grassroots development.

Leakages refer to the money that is lost from the local economy due to the outflow of funds to foreign-owned businesses, individuals, and governments overseas.

The leakages occur when the revenue generated by tourism is spent outside the local economy, instead of being reinvested in local businesses, infrastructure, and services.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Be Engaged, Be Part of the Solution

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Be Engaged, Be Part of the Solution

This week, let’s explore the notion of tourism leakages in Fiji and examine how community-based tourism initiatives are helping to bridge the gap between tourism revenue and grassroots development.

Leakages refer to the money that is lost from the local economy due to the outflow of funds to foreign-owned businesses, individuals, and governments overseas.

The leakages occur when the revenue generated by tourism is spent outside the local economy, instead of being reinvested in local businesses, infrastructure, and services.

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FHTA Welcomes New Specialist Healthcare Hospital

FHTA Welcomes New Specialist Healthcare Hospital

“The establishment of the Pacific Specialist Healthcare Hospital, is an example of broader-based investment opportunities in Fiji that the Association has identified has great potential, and provides an important addition for locals as well as being able to offer closer accessibility to the wider Pacific region to specialized medical services,” noted Fantasha Lockington, FHTA Chief Executive Officer.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Debunking the Myth of Tourism Leakages in Fiji

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Debunking the Myth of Tourism Leakages in Fiji

This week, let’s explore the notion of tourism leakages in Fiji and examine how community-based tourism initiatives are helping to bridge the gap between tourism revenue and grassroots development.

Leakages refer to the money that is lost from the local economy due to the outflow of funds to foreign-owned businesses, individuals, and governments overseas.

The leakages occur when the revenue generated by tourism is spent outside the local economy, instead of being reinvested in local businesses, infrastructure, and services.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Unlocking the Power of Linkages

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Unlocking the Power of Linkages

Last week we looked at the need to stimulate investments in infrastructure that in turn would rapidly progress investments in agriculture, business process outsourcing (BPO), information communication technology (ICT), construction, manufacturing and further progress tourism, as well as the SME sector that has the fastest potential to drive economic growth.
While more than 75% of tourism businesses in Fiji are owned by Fijian nationals, there is an urgent need to encourage more private investments to drive a faster economic development uptake, and for this shorter-term impact; support for SME businesses and further tourism growth can drive a quicker turnaround.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Investment Perspectives

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Investment Perspectives

As Fiji continues to grapple with the issue of sustainability, the importance of recycling has become an increasing part of achieving this, but just as clearly, our efforts need to be part of an ongoing series of collective actions to determine exactly how we Keep Fiji Beautiful.
Despite the efforts of individuals and organizations to promote recycling, there is a critical aspect of this issue that is often overlooked: the readiness for recycling when there is a far more urgent issue at stake for many of our citizens – waste collection.

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FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Local Ownership in Tourism

FHTA Tourism Talanoa: Local Ownership in Tourism

As Fiji continues to grapple with the issue of sustainability, the importance of recycling has become an increasing part of achieving this, but just as clearly, our efforts need to be part of an ongoing series of collective actions to determine exactly how we Keep Fiji Beautiful.
Despite the efforts of individuals and organizations to promote recycling, there is a critical aspect of this issue that is often overlooked: the readiness for recycling when there is a far more urgent issue at stake for many of our citizens – waste collection.

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