{"id":37976,"date":"2021-10-14T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T02:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/14\/were-ready-fiji-prepares-to-welcome-tourists-almost-two-years-after-closing-borders"},"modified":"2021-10-14T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T02:13:57","slug":"were-ready-fiji-prepares-to-welcome-tourists-almost-two-years-after-closing-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37976","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re ready\u2019: Fiji prepares to welcome tourists almost two years after closing borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fully vaccinated travellers from select countries including New Zealand and Australia will be able to visit from November<\/p>\n<p>Fiji says it is already experiencing a boom in demand after announcing this week that it would open up quarantine-free travel to visitors from select countries, almost two years after closing its borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur website data is well up \u2013 we are seeing a real lift in interest. It is exciting, and we want to encourage people to come and spend Christmas and new year in Fiji,\u201d Tourism Fiji chief executive Brent Hill said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/14\/were-ready-fiji-prepares-to-welcome-tourists-almost-two-years-after-closing-borders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully vaccinated travellers from select countries including New Zealand and Australia will be able to visit from NovemberFiji says it is already experiencing a boom in demand after announcing this week that it would open up quarantine-free travel to vi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37977,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976\/revisions\/37977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}