Australians Give Fiji Tourism a Boost

Fiji has closed off Q3 2010 chalking up yet another new Australian visitor arrival record with 30,253 Australians – an average of 1008 people per day – visiting the destination across September.

Figures released this week by Fiji’s Bureau of Statistics show a 14.8% increase for Australian visitor arrivals, the 30,253 more than shadowing the 26,342 total recorded for September 2009.

The 30,253 total also represents the very first time figures from Australia, and for that matter any of Fiji’s source markets, has crossed the 30,000 mark in any given month.

The September 2010 result takes Fiji’s Australian visitor arrivals for the nine month period to 208,424. This in itself represents a 28.6% increase on figures recorded for the same period in 2009 – 162,112 - with Australian business to Fiji now representing 45.6% of all international visitor arrivals.

The Australian figures again helped push Fiji’s international arrivals for September to new heights with the destination attracting 58,193 visitors, a 5.8% increase over the 54,981 achieved in 2009.

Total visitor arrivals January-September reached 456,588, a 16.3% increase over the 440,061 figure achieved for the same period in 2009 with all major markets showing growth over the nine month period.

These included New Zealand (plus 7.9%), the USA (plus 7.9%), and the UK/EU (plus 1.6%).

The positive results have kept Fiji bang on track to reach its record breaking target of 600,000 by the close of Q4 2010.

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