Tourism, personal remittances top Fiji’s foreign earnings

Tourism, personal remittances top Fiji’s foreign earnings

The Fiji Times, 3 August 2018 – FIJI’S top two foreign exchange earners – tourism and personal remittances – both recorded growth figures in the first quarter of this year.

The country’s central bank, in its Economic Review for the month ended July, 2018, noted a 4.7 per cent increase in tourism earnings on an annual basis to $358.2million in quarter 1, 2018.

This is compared with the same period in 2017.

According to the review, this outcome is mainly led by higher earnings from the US. Read more…