International tourism crisis specialist and TravelMole travel and tourism crisis correspondent David Beirman in a discussion with The Mole yesterday said that he had just completed the first day of a two day crisis and recovery training seminar with 17 Fijian Tourism professionals and the group was enthusiastic, full of good ideas and a pleasure to work with.
The programme is partly in follow up to TravelMole’s recovery marketing activity earlier this year and arranged by Fiji’s TPAF (Training Productivity Authority of Fiji), which David says has a most impressive training establishment in Nadi, providing in-service tourism industry and hospitality industry training to about 1,000 Fijian industry professionals each year.
David added that the Australian industry had a lot to learn from Fiji about the organisation of high quality in-service industry training.
David completes the two day programme today with what he describes as his band of budding crisis management experts and he also will address a luncheon gathering of 50 Fijian industry leaders organised by the Tourism Action Group which is coordinating Fiji’s post coup tourism industry recovery campaign.
David said that Naomi Nigulevu of TPAF did a superb job running the setup to the course today and the intention is that once David finishes the presentation TPAF will be able to run my course themselves in the future,
David also commented that Fiji is very green, very beautiful and very peaceful, that the flight with Air Pacific was excellent and he arrived in Nadi on Sunday into a magnificent sunset on a flight with a very healthy complement of Australian tourists.
Report by The Mole from an interview with David Beirman in Fiji.
