India Tourism Could Boom With Better Air Connections
(Fiji Live)
A senior Indian government officials says there would be strong interest among Indians to visit Fiji if flights were more convenient, the on-line news service Fiji Live reports.
Kailash Shrivastava, Joint Secretary in the India Ministry of Civil Aviation, says there biggest barrier to tourism is having to fly from India through Singapore, and then through Australia or New Zealand before traveling to Fiji.
“This is very time consuming. So, the necessity for us would be to first see that proper facilities are provided for the public at large to fly to destinations in Fiji,” Shrivastava said.
“I can tell you that because of this liberalization which governments of Malaysia, Thailand and the government of Singapore have done, today you will that in all these countries and important cities, any number of Indian tourists have been flocking there almost every day,” he added.
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