Welcome to Vanuatu Tourism! We’re a brand new blog that’s all about tourism in the Va-nuatu, a peaceful and beautiful country that’s somewhat off the beaten track: not that many people have heard of it and visitor numbers are quite low. The fact that it’s not over-run with tourists makes it a true hidden gem.
With our blog, we want to promote Vanuatu and encourage more people to visit. We don’t want huge crowds of people descending on the country, of course, but a few extra visitors wouldn’t hurt.
On this page, we’ll give you a summary of Vanuatu and what it has to offer. Have a read to find out a bit more about the country, then look through our posts and give some of them a read too.
About Vanuatu
Vanuatu is an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean that lies roughly 540km northeast of New Zealand and 1,750km to the east of northern Australia. It’s made up of over 80 islands that are volcanic in origin and of these, 65 are currently inhabited. Over 300,000 people call the islands home and the main industries they work in are agricul-ture, cattle raising, finance and tourism.
Vanuatu is split into six provinces: Torba, Sanma, Penama, Malampa, Shefa and Tafea. The Shefa province is where the country’s capital and largest settlement, Port Vila, can be found. Located on the island of Efate, the capital’s home to roughly a fifth of the coun-try’s population.
Like other island countries in the South Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu is rich in culture, herit-age and traditions. The country’s national language is Bislama, while English and French are also considered official languages. In total, some 113 indigenous languages are spoken throughout the country and because of the country’s rather small size, its density of languages is the highest in the world.
Tourism in Vanuatu
Tourism is one of Vanuatu’s most important industries. At the time of writing, however, this industry has been severely affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With inter-national travel heavily restricted throughout much of 2020 and still restricted as of March 2021, the country hasn’t been able to welcome many tourists at all.
Before the pandemic hit, Vanuatu benefited from quite a prosperous tourism industry. Even though the country isn’t the most well known, it still attracted plenty of tourists; enough to generate decent income, but not too many that the country was overrun with them.
Hopefully when restrictions get lifted and international travel can resume, Vanuatu and other places can start welcoming tourists freely once again. It may take a while before tourist numbers are back to what they were before the pandemic, but there’s no doubt they’ll get there in the end.
Read our Posts
Now that you know a bit more about Vanuatu, why not have a read of some of our posts? Get to know the country better and you never know, you may just decide to head there one day and see what it’s like for yourself. By reading our posts, you’ll get a taste of what the country’s like and the many wonderful attractions and natural features it has to offer.
We’ll be adding new posts every now and then, so keep coming back and see what we have to say about Vanuatu and its tourism industry. The worst of the pandemic seems to be over, so hopefully the country can look forward to rebuilding its tourism industry and making it better than ever before.