How is the Tourism sector in Fiji related to this governments “Look North Policy”?
In tourism, it is always good to increase your portfolio of visitors. China and India are particularly interesting markets for us. We are making efforts with these countries because as Australia and New Zealand are also there, it helps that we piggyback on what they do in those two emerging markets. It is always a chicken and egg situation. People say that Chinese and Indians are different markets, that they look for other things like better shopping, casinos and all that but same thing was said about the Japanese and the Koreans and they already come to Fiji. As soon as the number of visitors from those countries grew in Fiji the people here were able to provide facilities for them. Fiji people can quickly adapt themselves to everything. I have a lot of faith that Fiji will put up facilities to suit the Chinese when they start arriving as we have already done with the Japanese and the Koreans. We have a hospitable population and if you need Chinese interpreters you can find a lot of M
