The Minister for Tourism Mr Andrew Baing is expected to open the hotel officially. South Pacific Fares Air New Zealand is offering reduced fares to Fiji, Auckland and Sydney until May 31, 2000. Add-on fares are available from other US cities. Travel must occur between April 17 - August 23 with a minimum stay of seven days. Tourism and Earth Day Samoa is setting an example for all South Pacific tourist destinations by taking Earth Day 2000 seriously this Easter Sunday.
Earth day is celebrated annually worldwide.
Samoa, the only pacific nation involved so far, is planning a tourism event, a private sector initiative by the SPTO award-winning ecotour operator, Ecotour Samoa. Lets make Earth Day a tourism marketing event for the South Pacific. 124 visitors compared to 1998. The top five source markets were American Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, United States of America and other Pacific Islands. Construction will start by early 2000 and is scheduled for completion in the final quarter of 2001.