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Traditional skills help people on the tourism-deprived Pacific Islands survive the pandemic

  • Written by Regina Scheyvens, Professor of Development Studies, Massey University
Traditional skills help people on the tourism-deprived Pacific Islands survive the pandemicShutterstock/zara

Tourism in the South Pacific has been hit hard by COVID-19 border closures with thousands of people out of work.

Tourism normally provides one in four jobs in Vanuatu and one in three jobs in Cook Islands. It contributes between 20% and 70% of the GDP of countries spanning from Samoa and Vanuatu to Fiji and Cook Islands.

But our r...

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