Fiji’s Clueless New Tourism Campaign and 8 Other Top Travel Stories This Week
Photo Credit: Sunset in Fiji in a pre-pandemic image, before tourism officials launched a new controversial tourism campaign. Visual Hunt / Trey Ratcliffe
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In Skift's top stories this week, Fiji's new tourism campaign resurrects old colonial tropes and ignores its host communities, Vacasa goes public with, well, meh results, and Marriott puts a fresh coat of paint on its Courtyard Hotels, but so much more, too, in an overdue refresh.
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Tourism Fiji's Shameless New Campaign Is a Reminder for Marketers Everywhere Here's to hoping we don't see another one of these anytime soon. Host communities everywhere, irrespective of the destination's income level or racial makeup, are the face and the raison d'être of this global tourism industry — and they de
