International tourism and civil aviation in the South Pacific: issues and innovations

✍ Scribed by Christopher Kissling

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 921 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0343-2521
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00454577

✦ Synopsis

This paper examines recent trends in tourism in the South Pacific islands and looks in particular at the way in which airline links between markets and destinations are forged, maintained and developed through time. Geography, politics and organisational dynamics combine to present island nations in the South Pacific with numerous dilemmas. The interdependencies between tourism and aviation cannot be over-stressed. Tourism is no panacea to cure the economic problems of Pacific island microstates, but tourism and aviation are complementary industries which offer better prospects than standing in the dole queue for aid. Given the right political and managerial climate, there is a chance to 'trade with dignity'.