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Category: Resources

Tourism Talanoa: More of the New Normal

May 7, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: More of the New Normal

FHTA, 30 April 2020 – The global approach to everything has forever changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about huge uncertainty and tremendous concern. People are more anxious than ever

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Tourism Talanoa: Dive Into The Future

May 7, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Dive Into The Future

FHTA, 7 May 2020 – For the past weeks, our weekly Tourism Talanoa column has touched on many issues that are affecting the tourism sector in Fiji and last week

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Standing Down of Workers and Family Care Leave

April 29, 2020October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

1. We refer to your email of 21st April 2020 seeking our legal views on two issues, mainly: (i) Whether an employer can “suspend a worker’s employment contract” without pay

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Tourism Talanoa: The New Normal

April 23, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: The New Normal

FHTA, 23 April 2020 – A pandemic is raging around the globe. Borders have been closed. Planes have been grounded. People around the world have been asked to stop moving

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Marine notice – MSAF

April 17, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana COVID-19, News
artime Safety Authority of Fiji

FIJI TIMES 16 April 2020 – ALL of Fiji’s ports have resume clearance and are now open according to the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji. Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji’s

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Tourism Talanoa: Cyclones & King Tides

April 17, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Cyclones & King Tides

FHTA, 16 April 2020 – Severe Tropical Cyclone Harold has come and gone. This cyclone ripped through our outer islands and caused significant damages to structures and food supplies. But

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Tourism Talanoa: A Pandemic & A Cyclone

April 17, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: A Pandemic & A Cyclone

FHTA, 9 April 2020 – In last week’s Tourism Talanoa, we shared the heartache that the workers of Fiji’s tourism industry were enduring. This week, we look at how some

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Tourism Talanoa: Tourism Staff Struggles are Real

April 3, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Tourism Staff Struggles are Real

FHTA, 30 March 2020 – “The hardest part about all this is not being able to buy sugar, flour, rice, you know…the basics.” Those were the sentiments of former tourism

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Tourism Talanoa: Coping With A Crippling COVID-19

March 26, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Coping With A Crippling COVID-19

FHTA, 26 March 2020 – As we keenly await Government’s supplementary budget that we all hope will sufficiently address the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Fiji’s tourism industry and entire

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Annual Leave Pay Calculation

March 25, 2020October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong COVID-19, Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

Our views are requested on which wage / salary rate should be used to calculate leave pay during the implementation of “wage / salary  reduction”. Our views are discussed below:

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Tourism Talanoa: Tourism Bracing For The Worst

March 20, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Tourism Bracing For The Worst

FHTA, 19 March 2020 – The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is surging and making its presence felt all over the world. There is almost an air of inevitability about it reaching

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Tourism Talanoa: Local Produce in Demand

March 6, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Local Produce in Demand

FHTA, 5 March 2020 – We may have loathed vegetables as children but we soon grow up to understand how healthy they are for us. An appreciation of fruit and

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Tourism Fiji Releases COVID-19 Factsheet

March 2, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana News, Resources
Tourism Fiji Releases COVID-19 Factsheet

Tourism Fiji has collaborated with the Fijian Ministry of Health & Medical Services to release a COVID-19 Factsheet today. It contains important information about the symptoms of COVID-19, its transmission

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Tourism Talanoa: FHTA Fosters Partnerships with Media

February 28, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: FHTA Fosters Partnerships with Media

SUVA, 27 February 2020 – The power of the media cannot be overstated. Its role in the various aspects of life is becoming increasingly greater day by day, especially in

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Tourism Talanoa: Fiji, A Bleisure Destination

February 20, 2020October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Fiji, A Bleisure Destination

SUVA, 20 February 2020 – THERE are trends and improvements in every industry and it is the job of CEOs, GMs and managers to recognise these and adapt their businesses to

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Tourism Talanoa: Tourism faces slow start to 2020

February 13, 2020October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong Letter from CEO, News, Resources
Tourism Talanoa: Tourism faces slow start to 2020

SUVA, 13 February 2020 – IT is widely understood that many factors influence the flow of travellers around the world. Fiji as an island destination has its location with more

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Useful Weather Websites

February 11, 2020October 11, 2025 FHTASecretariat Resources
cyclones-fiji

Updated : January 2020 Here are some useful websites for weather relating to Fiji. Put these into your Favourites/Bookmarks in your browser and they’ll always be there.

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Emergency & Rescue Services

February 11, 2020October 11, 2025 FHTASecretariat Resources

Updated : January 2020 For any business/property managers, dealing with an emergency situation can be unexpected. But when one does arise, you need to be able to handle it in

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3500 mangrove seedlings planted in Lautoka

February 9, 2020October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong CSR, News
3500 mangrove seedlings planted in Lautoka

The Fiji Times, 03 February 2020 – THE Mamanuca Environment Society and Fiji Airports kicked off the new year with an ambitious coastal rehabilitation project that resulted in the replanting

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Importations of Telecommunication Equipments

January 29, 2020October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong Active Members Area, Resources
Importations of Telecommunication Equipments

In Pursuant to Section 55 (4) of the Telecommunications Promulgation 2008; “A person who intends to import any telecommunication equipment or apparatus including radio transmitting devices, other than equipment exempted

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