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Apia, SAMOA — The Chief Executive Officer of the Samoa Tourism Authority says tourism in Samoa will not be opening up anytime soon. Faamatuainu Lenata'I Suifua Faamatuainu was clarifying a statement on Radio Australia quoting him as saying the borders will reopen next year. He said while there have...
Samoa's Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, has responded to criticism of her government lifting the Sunday trade ban. All main and small markets can now reopen for business from 4am to 9am in the morning. The prime minister told reporters after a cabinet meeting that the Sunday ban...
Nikolao Pula
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior is detailing the $3,866,108 in grant funding to ASG from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Office of Insular Affairs’ Technical Assistance Program, Maintenance Assistance Program, and CARES Act funding for fiscal year 2021. Last week DOI...
Samoa Central Bank
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's economy collapsed by 8.6 percent in the 12 months to the end of September 2020. The loss in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was heavily impacted by a complete loss of income to the country's tourism sector. The latest economic update from the Central Bank of Samoa shows Samoa's...
A woman selling fish at the Fagatogo Marketplace in 2016
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Tourism in the South Pacific has been hit hard by COVID-19 border closures with thousands of people out of work. Tourism normally provides one in four jobs in Vanuatu and one in three jobs in Cook Islands. It contributes between 20% and 70% of the GDP of countries spanning...
I don't speak Samoan, I can't spell ‘faavelevas’, and I don’t know the culture; but I do know what an Economy about to collapse looks like. I know people will go hungry, and some already are. I know distress is coming, and desperation has arrived. Forget the lockdown, this is a tourist based...
Seabreeze Resort in Samoa
PACIFIC ISLANDS — Pacific economies will suffer a sharp fall as resource prices collapse and tourism numbers plummet to zero, but their remoteness could provide something of a buffer in what a World Bank economist called a 'double-edged sword' effect. In its just-released economic update for East...
An empty Saipan International Airport
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — On Saipan, the tourist area resembles a ghost town. Restaurants are being shuttered; shops reducing hours, resorts and water parks sit empty. The Northern Marianas, a US territory in the North Pacific, is meant to be humming at this time of year. March is normally the height...
Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi
Apia, SAMOA — A 200 member delegation from China led by a government minister is due in Samoa on Sunday for the launch of the China Pacific Tourism Year 2019. The launching today (Sunday in Samoa) at the Sheraton Aggies hotel will be attended by members of the local tourism industry and government...
South Pacific travel consultant, Carmel Beattie, during her presentation.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — South Pacific travel consultant, Carmel Beattie, shared an extensive over 2-hour analysis and recommendation presentation to the tourism sector, members of government, and the interested public at the Goat Island Cafe, Sadie’s by the Sea, Utulei, American Samoa, late...

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