NZ's MFAT (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade) offers travel advisories to all countries. At present, Afghanistan is shown as extreme risk; the borders of Iran extreme risk, elsewhere some risk; Fiji and the UK some risk; New Caledonia no risk was noted.
MFAT should listen to Radio NZI. Striking domestic airline workers in New Caledonia have blockaded and shut down the administration in Poindimie in the NE of the main island; and in the capital Noumea, to the south, employers blocked access to a key industrial zone in protest at the disruptions by the strike that has shut many businesses for a second week. "The violence has prompted the territory’s president, Philippe Gomes, to pull out of the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Cairns, sending instead the Congress president, Harold Martin."
Sorry, MFAT. The dig was irresistible, especially when you persisted in labelled all of Fiji as some risk, when all of Fiji outside Suva has for a long time been no risk, and when no tourist was likely to be targeted anywhere. I wonder how many tourists, intending to visit the no risk area in the West, were deterred by your blanket travel warning ? For the travel advisory for Fiji, issued on 12 April and still current on 4 August, click here.
Map: Lonely Planet.
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