Fiji celebrates record arrivals
Fiji has established a new visitor arrival record, welcoming close on 632,000 international visitors across 2010.
Figures released by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics show a total of 631,868 international visitors travelled to the destination for the 12-month period January-December 2010.
That figure eclipses the 542,186 total achieved for the same period in 2009 by more than 16 per cent.
Australia again continued to be the primary source of arrivals to Fiji for the 12-month period with visitation building to 318,185, a 28 percent increase over the 248,489 recorded across 2009.
This accounted for 50.4 percent of Fiji’s total international arrivals for the year.
New Zealand visitor numbers reached 97,857, a 7.36 percent increase over the 90,898 recorded for 2009.
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