Solomon Islands tourism sector is ready for reopening

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As the Solomon Islands prepares to rejoin the world after greater than two years of isolation, outcomes of a recently-conducted Ministry of Culture & Tourism/Tourism Solomons survey present the nation’s tourism sector is ready to welcome guests as quickly as the choice to reopen the border has been finalised.

According to the outcomes of the ‘COVID Preparedness in the Tourism Sector’ report, the tourism sector is properly forward of different segments of the inhabitants by way of COVID-readiness and greater than 70percentof the 100 enterprise operators polled are optimistic to a border re-opening and vacationers returning.

Exceptionally excessive vaccination charges within the tourism sector confirmed 87% of resort managers/house owners are absolutely vaccinated and 65% of all employees are absolutely vaccinated.

The variety of the nation’s key tourism operators’ vaccination charges are even larger with 88% absolutely vaccinated in line with the survey.

The survey additionally confirmed 98% of operators had been prepared to participate within the MCT’s ‘Tourism Minimum Standards Extra-Care’ coaching and implement COVID-safe protocols.

Other key findings:

• 44% of tourism operators have a COVID-safe plan in place
• 68% of operators have in-place strategies for implementing the “no vax, no mask, no entry” coverage
• 70% of operators have entry to RAT take a look at kits

Compiled on March 11, 2022, the survey was carried out by employees from the Department of Tourism (MCT), Tourism Solomons (TS) and tourism officers from Honiara City Council (HCC) and consisted of 18 questions designed to evaluate the readiness and willingness of tourism operator to implement COVID-safe protocols.

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