Tourist's Destination-Papua New Guinea (2024)

26/09/2023

Niugini International Tours is now running a video documentary on tourism in Papua New Guinea. The documentary is in Tok Pidgin version to diseminate tourism information for Papua New Guineans to develop their tourism businesses.

18/09/2023

Episode 1: Tourism in Papua New Guinea

26/05/2023

TOURISM IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Most developed and developing countries bank on tourism as their main driver to economic development. The smaller island nations like Indonesia and the Pacific island nations concentrate mostly on tourism compare to manufacturing and extraction of natural resources for income generation.

Papua New Guinea National Government in its Development Strategic Plan 2010-2030 aims at receiving 1.5million tourists by 2030. It also aims at creating over 310,000 job opportunities in our country.

According to reports by TPA and ICCC in 2020/2023 and report by Allan Sumb of the Department of Pacific Affairs in his working paper 2020/3 on Developing Tourism Sector in Papua New Guinea, both reports raised concern on challenges affecting tourism sector development in PNG. The first challenge is the domestic airfares cost really high preventing tourists from visiting many potential tourists hub in the country. The second challenges is the media reports by PNG media companies like radio, TVs and Daily Newspapers running headlines on the increase crime rates in the country causing fear to international travelers and domestic travelers as well. And the other challenge is the systematic corruption by certain politicians during dissemination of services and finance.

While TPA and ICCC calls on tourism industry to help the government of PNG develop the sector than doing nothing by way of cooperative and collaborative developing the industry.

On the other hand, TPA and ICC's report also recommended the National Government to establish a new tourism industry body that can do better jobs than than the current TPA by replacing it.

The author of this article wish to blame the the existing tourism Act which only created room for only two tourism destinations in the country causing other other twenty provinces to miss out in the sector development. This has suppressed other provinces to miss out on tourism budget allocations each year.

This page has been created for PNG tourism stakeholders to meet and share their views on how the industry can collectively and collaboratively cooperate to develop the sector than doing individual businesses to help our people and our government reach its its aims.

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