Visitor arrivals for September 2022 total 72,657

Provisional numbers show that Fiji visitor arrivals for September 2022 totalled 72,657.

The Fiji Bureau of Statistics says this is a decrease of 3.6 percent compared to August 2022.

It says while visitor arrival numbers for September 2022 has greatly improved, the number is lower [10.7%] compared to the visitor arrival numbers for September from the pre-COVID era in 2019.

Of the 72,657 visitors, 71,739 came by air while 918 came by sea.

The September 2022 visitors arrivals represent 89.3 percent of September 2019 levels.

On a cumulative basis from January to September, visitor arrivals is 426,934.

This is 63.3 percent of arrivals in the same period of 2019.

Australian arrivals is 116.9 percent, NZ is 94.8 percent and USA is 76.2 percent of September 2019 levels.

For the past 3 months (July to September) the average is 83.3 percent of pre COVID-19.