TAHITI is acceptable an added accepted destination for Australian travellers, with its civic airline advocacy flights to accommodated the growing demand.
Air Tahiti Nui will access its flights from Auckland, New Zealand to the basic Papeete to three a anniversary in December, with access from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane through codeshare accomplice Qantas.
The move follows a 40 per cent acceleration in trips to French Polynesia by Australians in the accomplished three years, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.
While sayingadmitting it comes off a low base, with about 10,000 Australians visiting Tahiti endure year, Air Tahiti Nui's accepted administrator for Australia and New Zealand Mark Hutchinson said it was a articulate destination that attracts travellers gluttonous affair and adventure, as against to "tourists".
"More humans go to Australia's a lot of accepted destinations in a anniversary than go to Tahiti in a year," he says. "It's a little added than Fiji so you ability not go there every six months but it's a appropriate amusement if you don't wish to run with the tourists."
Tahiti is the better island in French Polynesia, an archipelago of 118 islands in an breadth of the Pacific Ocean about the admeasurement of Europe.
While a lot of tourists access in Papeete, the a lot of accepted islands are Bora Bora and Moorea, acclaimed for their overwater bungalows.
It takes about 11 hours to get to Tahiti from Australia's east coast, including a two-hour alteration in Auckland.
From there it is a 30-minute bear ride to Moorea or one-hour flight to Bora Bora.
Tourism to French Polynesia suffered a hit if the Club Med resort at Bora Bora bankrupt in 2009. Australian mining administrator Clive Palmer bought the acreage for $10 actor endure year, but he has not appear affairs to redevelop it yet.
Hutchinson says abounding Australians are aswell gluttonous out the lesser-known islands such as Rangiroa, accepted for its amazing sea life, and "the blush beach island" Tikehau.
The limited Marquesas archipelago is aswell accepted for canoeing and sailing.
And While some travellers may yield one attending at photos of the overwater bungalows and address the destination off as too expensive, heHutchinson says there are affluence of account options accessible including cabins and rustic, family-run pensions, agnate to bed and breakfasts.
He says there is aswell added to the destination than beaches and lagoons, with activities including pond with sharks and stingrays, fair acreage visits, surfing, sailing, aeroplane surfing, scuba diving, snorkelling and 4WD tours to analyze age-old agitable
craters bond with Polynesian ability and cuisine with French influences.
Air Tahiti Nui will access its flights from Auckland, New Zealand to the basic Papeete to three a anniversary in December, with access from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane through codeshare accomplice Qantas.
The move follows a 40 per cent acceleration in trips to French Polynesia by Australians in the accomplished three years, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.
While sayingadmitting it comes off a low base, with about 10,000 Australians visiting Tahiti endure year, Air Tahiti Nui's accepted administrator for Australia and New Zealand Mark Hutchinson said it was a articulate destination that attracts travellers gluttonous affair and adventure, as against to "tourists".
"More humans go to Australia's a lot of accepted destinations in a anniversary than go to Tahiti in a year," he says. "It's a little added than Fiji so you ability not go there every six months but it's a appropriate amusement if you don't wish to run with the tourists."
Tahiti is the better island in French Polynesia, an archipelago of 118 islands in an breadth of the Pacific Ocean about the admeasurement of Europe.
While a lot of tourists access in Papeete, the a lot of accepted islands are Bora Bora and Moorea, acclaimed for their overwater bungalows.
It takes about 11 hours to get to Tahiti from Australia's east coast, including a two-hour alteration in Auckland.
From there it is a 30-minute bear ride to Moorea or one-hour flight to Bora Bora.
Tourism to French Polynesia suffered a hit if the Club Med resort at Bora Bora bankrupt in 2009. Australian mining administrator Clive Palmer bought the acreage for $10 actor endure year, but he has not appear affairs to redevelop it yet.
Hutchinson says abounding Australians are aswell gluttonous out the lesser-known islands such as Rangiroa, accepted for its amazing sea life, and "the blush beach island" Tikehau.
The limited Marquesas archipelago is aswell accepted for canoeing and sailing.
And While some travellers may yield one attending at photos of the overwater bungalows and address the destination off as too expensive, heHutchinson says there are affluence of account options accessible including cabins and rustic, family-run pensions, agnate to bed and breakfasts.
He says there is aswell added to the destination than beaches and lagoons, with activities including pond with sharks and stingrays, fair acreage visits, surfing, sailing, aeroplane surfing, scuba diving, snorkelling and 4WD tours to analyze age-old agitable
craters bond with Polynesian ability and cuisine with French influences.
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