Strong growth of 8.2 % of tourist arrivals into Asia and Pacific

The South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) has published its Quarterly Review of Tourist Arrivals to the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) for the first quarter of 2018.

“International visitor arrivals to the Asia and the Pacific region registered a strong growth of 8.2%, up from 7.3% in the December quarter. The global tourist arrivals also recorded 6.9% growth in the first quarter of 2018, outstripping the 4.9% gain in the December quarter of 2017 ” said SPTO Chief Executive Officer, Christopher Cocker.

The positive result reflected a continuation of the solid trend witnessed in 2017 triggered by strong confidence in global tourism.

Tourist arrivals to the Pacific ACP and SPTO member countries reached a provisional 464,593 in the March quarter 1 of 2018.

This outperformed the March quarter of 2017 by 6.2%, but weakened against the December quarter 2017 by 16.5%.

“The positive performance against the March quarter of 2017 was boosted by rising arrivals in majority of the destinations including Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, French Polynesia and Samoa” said Mr Cocker.

In Quarter 1, 2018, Fiji continues to lead the top 10 destination shares with 36.7% followed by French Polynesia at 9.7%, Palau 7.3%, PNG 7.2%, Samoa 6.8%, Cook Islands 6.5%, Timor Leste 6.0%, New Caledonia 5.9% and Vanuatu with 5.1%. The remaining 8.7% was shared among all the other destinations in the region.

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