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Climate Services Division / Department of Meteorology, 11 February 2020 – Please find attached a copy of the Fiji Climate Summary for December 2019 in PDF format. This Climate Summary also contains special feature information on Tropical Cyclone Tino.
Attachment: Fiji Climate Summary_January 2020
SPTO – December 2019
Market Watch is the South Pacific Tourism Organization’s monthly market intelligence summary exclusively for members. This monthly publication highlights the latest travel trends and resident departure movements in the key outbound travel markets for the Pacific, viz. Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, Asia, China and India.
*All information published in Market Watch is dependent on the availability of information from the relevant sources for each Source Market.
Monthly Market Watch December 2019 Brief – World Outbound Travel
In December 2019, an estimated 21.8 million international short term trips were undertaken worldwide, by eight international regions. This is a growth from last month’s international short term trips by 8.2% but a fall of 15.3% comparative to last year December.
Looking at total shares, USA leads the charge at 37.9%, followed by the Chinese at 22.9%. The United Kingdom lags behind at 17.5%, meanwhile in Asia, Singapore trails behind South Korea at 5.9% to 10.4% respectively. The minority of outgoing travellers from Australia, New Zealand and India capture the remaining 5.4%.Read more…
RBF Economic Review Vol 36 No 12
Global economic growth is expected to pick up to 3.4 percent in 2020 against an anticipated lackluster 3.0 percent expansion in 2019. Ongoing trade tensions
coupled with weak global demand have weighed on growth of major economies in 2019. Going forward,further escalation in United States (US)-China trade
war and an upswing in crude oil prices pose downside risks to global growth next year.
Commodity prices generally rose over the month in November due to higher demand for crude oil supported by some optimism in US-China trade deal.
The monthly increase in the FAO1 food price index was driven by higher prices of vegetable oils, meat and sugar.
The Fijian economy is expected to grow by 1.7 percent in 2020, from a 1.0 percent anticipated growth in 2019. The modest growth estimated for
2019 reflects subdued aggregate demand, mixed sectoral performances, weak business confidence and reduced fiscal stimulus.
Tourism remains positive as visitor arrivals rose by 3.5 percent cumulative to November, due to higher arrivals from
the US, New Zealand, Japan, Pacific Island Countries and Australia. In addition, tourism earnings grew by 3.7 percent to total $1,543.0 million
up to the third quarter of the year. In the 2019 crushing season, both cane (6.5%) and sugar production (5.3%) increased over the year.
Similarly, mahogany production rose significantly, while woodchips, pine wood, sawn timber and gold output fell in the year to November.
Full Report: Economic-Review-December-2019
Fiji Bureau of Statistics Release No 1 2020
Findings from the Quarter 3, 2019 survey of Licensed Hotels, Resorts and Lodging Houses are presented in the release below;
Compared to Quarter 3, 2018
The number of Rooms Available increased by 6.0%.
The number of Rooms Sold increased by 8.4%.
The Room Occupancy Rate increased by 1.3 percentage points to 62.1%.
The number of Beds Available increased by 2.0%.
The number of Beds Sold increased by 6.5%.
The Bed Occupancy Rate increased by 2.4 percentage points to 57.8%.
Takings from Accommodation, Sales of Food, Liquor, Telephone and Other
Miscellaneous Charges totaled $371.4 million, an increase of 6.8%.
Paid Employment in the Hotel Sector increased by 3.2%.
Full report:Hotels-Qtr3-2019
Fiji Bureau of Statistics Release No 2 2020
Fiji’s annual visitor arrival number reached a new high of 894,389 in 2019. This was 2.8% more visitors than the previous record of 870,309 which arrived in 2018.
Full report: FBoS Rel No. 02, 2020 Provisional Visitor Arrivals – 2019
FBoS Release No. 01 – 15th January 2020.
Compared to Quarter 3, 2018:
The number of Rooms Available increased by 6.0%.
The number of Rooms Sold increased by 8.4%.
The Room Occupancy Rate increased by 1.3 percentage points to 62.1%.
The number of Beds Available increased by 2.0%.
The number of Beds Sold increased by 6.5%.
The Bed Occupancy Rate increased by 2.4 percentage points to 57.8%.
Takings from Accommodation, Sales of Food, Liquor, Telephone and Other
Miscellaneous Charges totaled $371.4 million, an increase of 6.8%.
Paid Employment in the Hotel Sector increased by 3.2%.
