Tourism Fiji CEO Josefa Tuamoto has described the new Air Pacific/Cathay Pacific code share as a major windfall for Fiji’s tourism saying the new service represents a timely boost for Fiji’s tourism intake from the Hong Kong/south east China region.

The region he said has already shown strong growth in what has proven a tough year in many of our traditional and Indian source markets.

The added bonus is that the new service will be operated on a code share basis with Cathay Pacific Airways offering Fiji-bound visitors from Europe, the rest of Asia and of course China, even more linkage to Hong Kong via the airline’s domestic China network.

“There can be no doubt about it, China represents a huge opportunity for Fiji’s tourism industry and while the global recession initially had a marked effect on visitor arrivals from several of our key markets in the first half of 2009, China has cosntinued to show good growth,” he said.