Pacific tourism heads told to collude rather than compete

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Updated October 26, 2009 09:39:07

Pacific Island nations have been told they need to get smarter with their tourism markets. That's the message from ministers at this year's annual tourism meeting in Solomon Islands who all recently agreed that the region needs to work together, rather than compete for limited tourism dollars.

While attendance at the meeting was down this year because of the tsunami in the Samoas and Tonga, the ministers who did mange to make it to Honiara agreed they need to work together.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fiji's Minister for Industry, Tourism and Trade and interim Attorney-General

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