Pacific peoples and the pandemic: exploring multiple well-beings of people in tourism-dependent communities

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Figure 1. Case study locations.

Source: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/mapsonline/base-maps/southwest-pacific.

Table 1. Comparison of tourism in five Pacific Island countries, 2019.

	Population	Visitor Arrivals	Tourism Employment	Tourism Receipts	Tourism revenue as a % of GDP^1
Fiji	883,000	870,309	41,338	US $931 m	38.90%
Vanuatu	293,000	115,634	15,000	US $281 m	45.90%
Samoa	196,000	167,651	5,158	US $248 m	30.42%
Cook Islands	18,000	168,760	2,386	US $253 m	86.99%
Solomon Islands	653,000	27,866	6,400	US $81 m	12.50%

Sources: UN, 2019; South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO),), 2019.

Table 2. Interviewees.

	Interviews & Talanoa
	Males	Females
Fiji	8	8
Cook Islands	8	8
Samoa	5	7
Vanuatu	26	7
Solomon Islands	1	4
TOTAL	48	34

Figure 2. How COVID-19 has impacted aspects of the well-being of respondents' families, households or communities.

Figure 3. Frangipani Framework: Pacific Peoples’ Well-Being Through Tourism.

Source: Authors

UN. (2019). Population Division: World population prospects. https://population.un.org/wpp/

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South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO). (2019). 2018 Annual Visitor Arrivals Report. SPTO: Suva. Retrieved from: https://pic.or.jp/ja/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2018-Annual-Visitor-Arrivals-ReportF.pdf.

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