Archive for the ‘Solomon Islands’ Category

Luxury comes home to Solomon Islands

By Charles Kereau | Aug 27, 2009 HONIARA, Solomon Islands (eTN) – Final touches to Solomon Islands’ newest and most modern hotel, the Heritage Park Hotel, will complete within the next few weeks before its formal opening next month.

August 27, 2009   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands welcomes increase in tourists

By Charles Kereau, eTN Staff Writer | Aug 07, 2009 HONIARA (eTN) – Solomon Islands is seeing a steady increase in the number of visitor arrivals in the second quarter of 2009. The latest figure released by the Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) indicated an 8 percent increase to 4,832 compared to the same period [...]

August 7, 2009   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands prime minister wants more tourists

BY CHARLES KEREAU/etn | FEB 19, 2009 HONIARA, Solomon Islands (eTN) – Prime Minister Derek Sikua has said his administration is aiming at bringing in 30,000 foreign tourists to the country before his government folds in 2010. Prime Minister Sikua made the statement while visiting the Ministry of Tourism and Culture headquarters and its divisions [...]

February 19, 2009   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: Small but not terrible during rough economic times

BY CHARLES KEREAU | FEB, 2009 HONIARA (eTN) – Tourism in Solomon Islands has grown from strength to strength over the past five years. Latest visitors' arrival statistics for the first three quarters of 2008 show total holiday travelers to Solomon Islands grew by 38 percent to 3,654 visitors compared with 18 percent growth for [...]

February 13, 2009   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Support pours in for Solomon Islands

By Charles Kereau HONIARA, Solomon Islands (eTN) – Overseas aid assistance is now starting to pour into Solomon Islands. The Australian government has made an initial offer of up to US$1 million in emergency and reconstruction assistance to the Solomon Islands government.

April 5, 2007   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Tourism in tsunami-ravaged Gizo in the Solomon islands slowly returns to normal

By Charkes Kereau HONIARA, Solomon Islands (eTN) – Tourist resorts in the tsunami-devastated Gizo are slowing picking up from Monday s havoc. The Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) received reports from Gizo that most of the hotels, motels and resorts in Gizo and Munda experienced minor damages but remain closed for fear of further earthquakes [...]

April 5, 2007   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, Vanuatu welcome new air link

Hundreds gathered earlier this week in Sanma Province, in northern Vanuatu, to join Prime Minister Ham Lini and members of his cabinet to welcome the inaugural flight of the newly-leased Solomon Airlines aircraft.

November 17, 2006   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands gov't announces its tourism policy

Solomon Islands Grand Coalition for Change government, elected into power earlier this month, has released its tourism policy to the public. In the tourism sector, the government has made tourism one of its major areas of improvement.  They include the improvement of existing physical infrastructure such as airfields, wharves, roads, the transportation systems, marine channels [...]

May 26, 2006   Posted in: Solomon Islands

A tourism perspective on political unrest in the Solomon Islands

By David Beirman The Solomon Islands is a tourist destination which primarily attracts dive and eco-tourism. The country forms a 1,500 km double string of tropical island pearls between Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, two hours flying time from North-East Australia. 

April 22, 2006   Posted in: Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands establishes national tourism association

The country’s tourism industry on Friday formed an association called the National Tourism Association of Solomon Islands (NTASI), aimed to address the needs of tour operators.

September 6, 2005   Posted in: Solomon Islands