The PIT&I Tourism Strategy will focus on sustainable tourism promotion and development for SMMEs based in the FICs. PIT&I will identify at least 3 SMMEs in the beginning of the planning period and focus on their sustainable promotion and development in the next three years.

The commission will be working closely with the following organisations to carry out the tourism strategy: NZAID, SPTO and SPANTO. To read more on PITIC NZ's tourism programme please go to About Us and view the PITIC NZ strategic plan.

 

Travel Advice

For the latest Travel Advice visit www.safetravel.govt.nz

 

South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO)

Founded in the early 1980s as an informal association of national tourism organisations in the region, The South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) is now a regional intergovernmental organisation with a permanent Secretariat based in Suva, Fiji. Its fundamental objective is to foster regional co-operation in the development and promotion of tourism in the island nations of the South Pacific.

Its current full government membership comprises of American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Please note that not all the Pacific Countries represented by the Pacific Islands Trade & Investment Commission are member countries of the SPTO, and vice versa.

SPTO have created (in cooperation with the Pacific Islands Trade Forum Office in Beijing) a Mandarin version of their website - please refer your contacts to www.spto.cn.

Contact Details:

SOUTH PACIFIC TOURISM ORGANISATION
Level 3, FNPF Place
343-359 Victoria Parade
PO Box 13-119, Suva
Fiji Islands
Phone: (679) 304 177
Fax: (679) 301 995
Email: info@spto.org
Website: www.spto.org

Islands in the Pacific

This website was created by SPANTO - a NZ based group of National Tourism Offices representing the Pacific (South Pacific Association of National Tourism Offices).

www.islandsinthepacific.com
 

 

Tourism Toolkit for the Pacific

The new South Pacific Tourism Toolkit www.PacificToolkit.org is a new website that has been developed with small to medium tourism enterprises in the Pacific. The website provides online access to a set of training resources that will benefit those starting their tourism business as well as those who seek to develop their businesses further. This was created for SPTO, through NZTRI.

 

PITIC has funded the promotion of PNG, Tahitian and Micronesian diving through the NZ company Dive Fish and Snow Travel. Check out their dedicated websites for the following areas:

      http://www.divefishsnow.co.nz/dive/papua-new-guinea/

      http://www.divefishsnow.co.nz/dive/tahiti/

      http://www.divefishsnow.co.nz/dive/micronesia/

 

Tourism Website links

• Cook Islands - www.cook-islands.com
  
• Federated States of Micronesia - www.pohnpeivb.fm
  
• Fiji Islands - www.bulafiji.com
  
• French Polynesia - www.tahiti-tourisme.co.nz
  
• Kiribati - www.visit-kiribati.com
  
• Nauru - www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/pacific/nauru
  
• New Caledonia - www.newcaledoniatourism-south.com
  
• Niue - www.niueisland.com
  
• Papua New Guinea - www.png-tourism.com and www.pngtourism.org.pg
  
• Samoa - www.visitsamoa.ws
  
• Solomon Islands - www.visitsolomons.com.sb
  
• Tonga - www.tongaholiday.com
  
• Tuvalu - www.timelesstuvalu.com
  
• Vanuatu - www.vanuatutourism.com

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