Recovering vigorously after 2016’s Cychomen Winston with the help of private sector investments, Fiji is reemerging with four new hotels. These include the sleek and surprisingly affordable Marriott Resort Momi Bay, with 22 overwater bure (bungalows) among its 114 rooms, and Kokomo, a 140-acre private island on the Great Astrolabe Reef.
Existing resorts like Nanuku have made meaningful nods to conservation by banning single-use plastics like straws and shampoo bottles, and introducing coral nurseries and mangrove restoration projects with reused plastic water bottles to grow seedlings. In the spring, Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic is scheduled to begin a series of cruises to the South Pacific, including stops in Fiji’s lesser-visited islands like Taveuni and Beqa, while Fiji Airways inaugurated a new direct flight to Fiji’s Nadi International Airport from San Francisco in fall 2017.
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