FBoS Annual Provisional Visitors Arrival – January

FBoS Annual Provisional Visitors Arrival – January

20 February 2020 – Provisional numbers show that visitor arrivals for January 2020 totaled 65,386.

  • The January Visitors arrival records showed an increase of 2.5% in comparison to 2018, showing an increase in visitors from Australia (7.3% or 2,026), USA (8.8% or 500), UK (12.5% or 158), China (12.7% or 505), and Others (0.2% or 1)
  • Decreases in the number of visitors from New Zealand (-2.2% or down 257), Canada (-4.1% or down 46), Cont Europe (-3.6% or down 104), Japan (-35.6% or down 401), South Korea (-58.7% or down 450), Rest of Asia (-9.3% or down 172) and Pacific Islands (-3.5% or down 181)
  • The moving six months to January 2020, Fiji Bureau of Statistics has reported visitor arrival has increased by 0.2% over the corresponding period in 2019, up from 455073 to 455904.
  • In addition, the moving twelve monthly numbers ending January 2020, the total number of visitors to Fiji increased by 2.8% compared to the same period in 2019.