Focus on tourism in the Solomon Islands

THE Solomon Islands government is looking to the tourism sector to attract 60,000 visitors annually by 2025, in the process netting the country’s economy SBD1 billion. With International visitation to the Solomon Islands growing on average nine per cent annually, the destination is hopeful of achieving the 30,000 mark by the end of 2019.  

Addressing delegates attending the 2019 ‘Measure What Matters’ Tourism Focus in Honiara, #SolomonIslands caretaker prime minister, the Hon. Rick Rick Houenipwela said contributions from tourism in recent years had now grown to the point when the sector was now looked at to plug the gap left by the country’s former key economic drivers, including forestry and mining."

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THE Solomon Islands tourism industry have seen collective visitor arrivals for Q1 2018 up 29 per cent over the same period in 2017. Figures released by the #SolomonIslands National Statistics Office (SINSO) show international visitation increased from 4881 to 6296 with January, February and March all showing positive growth.

Australian visitor arrivals continued to dominate representing 34.8 per cent of all international visitation. A strong New Zealand result saw an 18.3 per cent increase, in the process firmly cementing the country in place as the second largest source of visitation. Papua New Guinea and the US maintained their third and fourth positions.
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Solomon Islands records biggest ever August visitor numbers

THE 75th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal has been attributed as the key factor in the Solomon Islands recording its biggest ever August visitor intake since arrival records began. A total of 2589 visitors arrived in August, the figure representing a 34.98 per cent increase over the net increase over the 1916 recorded in August 2016 with marked increases seen from Australia, the US, New Zealand and particularly Japan. 

#SolomonIslands Visitors Bureau CEO, Josefa ‘Jo’ Tuamoto said the 75th anniversary had undoubtedly played a major role in the result.

“Given the huge amount of effort which went into promoting the event on a world-wide basis, we were confident of an increase in our international visitors so the result is very pleasing indeed,” Mr Tuamoto said. “Our amazing WWII history, our well-preserved battlefields and our war museums continue to prove a major attraction and especially, the huge amount of sunken ships and aircraft which have made us such a mecca for the international dive market.

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Solomon Islands tourism: good start to 2016

THE SOLOMON ISLANDS tourism industry has enjoyed one of its best ever starts to a year, with combined international visitor arrivals for the two-month period January and February increasing by more than 23 per cent. 

#SolomonIslands government statistics showed there were 3,362 international visitor arrivals for the period, a 23.4 percent increase over the total for the same period in 2015.

Double digit growth was achieved in all of the destination’s top four source markets – Australia, US, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand.

The government’s tourism department plans to step up its marketing activity in the UK and continental Europe, promoting the destination’s niche tourism offerings, in particular diving, culture, and bird watching.

The Solomon Islands comprises six major islands and more than 900 smaller ones to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.

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Soaring visitor numbers make it Auckland’s hottest summer yet

A RECORD number of visitors have flocked to #Auckland, with more than 824,000 international arrivals into the region between December 2015 and February 2016 – up 10.7 percent on the previous summer. 

Auckland’s mayor, Mr Len Brown, says a strong visitor economy has many flow-on effects which benefit both Auckland and #NewZealand as a whole. ‘#Tourism has reclaimed the top spot as the country’s number one export earner and it’s not hard to see why, with such sustained growth in visitor numbers. 

More visitors to Auckland creates more jobs and more money for the economy, and supports the development of better infrastructure to accelerate our transformation to become the world’s most liveable city.’

*Rounding out a positive year for Solomon Islands tourism, figures show that international visitor numbers for 2015 increased from 20,061 in 2014 to 21,623 – up by 7.8 percent.

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