Tourism in Kiribati

South Tarawa

Bonriki International Airport

Kiritimati

The tourism in Kiribati plays a subordinate economic role. Despite the typical South Seas - flair with palm trees and sandy beaches to visit in absolute terms few travelers Kiribati . According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Kiribati was the second least visited country in the world after Tuvalu in 2016 .

The Kiribati National Tourism Office of the Ministry of Information, Communication, Transport and Tourism is responsible for tourism marketing in Kiribati . The KNTO is a member of the South Pacific Tourism Organization .

statistics

Source: UNWTO (ed.): World Tourism Highlights 2017, UNWTO, July 2017

year	Visitors	tendency
2016	5000	▲
2015	4250	▼
2014	5000	▬
2010	5000	▬

Arrival and transport

You can travel to Kiribati via two international airports and by ship. The Cassidy Airport on Kiritimati is internationally Fiji Airways operated. The Bonriki International Airport is also served by Solomon Airlines and Nauru Airlines . National connections exist through Air Kiribati .

Worth seeing

Tarawa

The main island group with the capital South Tarawa is Tarawa , which is part of the Gilbert Islands . This is where all the major government institutions and headquarters of the country's largest companies are located. The atoll is particularly interesting for tourists because of its beaches and lagoon and historically because of the battle of the Gilbert Islands .

Other archipelagos

The Islands Line and Phoenix Islands and the phosphate - Island Banaba form the other parts of the country of Kiribati. Only three of the Line Islands are populated, with around 6500 residents living on Kiritimati with an international airport. Only about 20 people are permanently resident on the Phoenix Islands, in Canton .

literature

• Euromonitor International (Ed.): Country Report - Travel and Tourism in Kiribati. 2012 Euromonitor International. ( available online )
• Ministry of Communications, Transport and Tourism Development (Ed.): Kiribati National Tourism Action Plan, 2009-2014. 2009.

Web links

Wikivoyage: Kiribati  Travel Guide

• Official tourism site Kiribati (English)
• Information of the South Pacific Tourism Organization (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tourism in Kiribati. Commonwealth of Nations. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
2. ↑ Tourism. Ministry of Information, Communication, Transport and Tourism. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
3. ↑ UNWTO Tourism Highlights: 2017 Edition . World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), 2017, ISBN 978-92-844-1902-9 , doi : 10.18111 / 9789284419029 ( e-unwto.org [accessed September 9, 2019]).
4. ↑ Visitor Arrivals (2015). Kiribati National Statistics Office. ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 16, 2018.