PACIFIC: south pacific delegations examine tourist developments

SOUTH PACIFIC DELEGATIONS EXAMINE TOURIST DEVELOPMENTS

PAPE‘ETE, Tahiti (Tahitipresse, July 30) - Some of the South Pacific 
delegations that came to Tahiti for the France-Oceania meeting hosted by 
visiting French President Jacques Chirac became traveled on Tuesday to Bora 
Bora and Fakarava.

Accompnied by French Polynesia president of government, Gaston Flosse, the 
delegations first visited the territory’s most popular tourist destination, 
Bora Bora in the Leeward Islands, a government communiqué announced.

They visited a wastewater treatment plant and two hotels on Bora Bora, 
allowing them to discover "the different aspects of a long term development" 
especially designed for tourism, the communiqué stated.

The delegations were then taken to the Tuamotu atoll of Fakarava, "another 
model development also focused on tourism." They were invited to "the 
inauguration of a big Tuamotu gathering, the first festival of this type 
entirely devoted to the Paumotu culture," the communiqué stated.

Members of the delegations from Nauru, Palau, Vanuatu, Niue, the Solomon 
Islands, Wallis-and-Futuna, Fiji and the Pacific Community made the visits to 
Bora Bora and Fakarava.

They were among some 15 delegations from the South Pacific that attended 
Monday’s France-Oceania meeting.

July 31, 2003

Tahitipresse: www.tahiti.com

 

Copyright © 2003 Tahitipresse. All Rights Reserved