Fiji’s leading inbound tourism operator Rosie Holidays has once again achieved a key milestone with the opening of the inaugural Rosie Gallery at its Martintar head office in Nadi yesterday.
An investment of about $100,000, the gallery reflects on the company’s 50 years of success in Fiji. It showcases timelines of Rosie Holidays’ humble beginnings in 1974 with founders Rosie and Roy Whitton and two drivers.
There are photographs of pioneer staff and awards on display of the company’s progress through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s.
Rosie Holidays managing director Tony Whitton said the room, which features the gallery, has been able to bottle the secret formula of Rosie’s success.
“Today we wanted to celebrate two milestones — to share our story of the last 50 years and, secondly, to invite my mother to officially open our Rosie Gallery,” he said.
“This is a room that has been able to ‘bottle’ the secret formula for Rosie’s success. It is a living journal of a journey that started in 1974.
“I would like to thank my wife Brigid and her team for all their work to design the gallery.”
He said the company had redefined Fiji’s tourism landscape in many ways.
“With extraordinary innovation, like building Fiji’s first over-water bungalows, being the first company to operate Fiji Airways charter flights into Beijing and Shanghai, being the first company to introduce electric vehicles for our guest transfers, the only company to be the first admitted in the Tourism Hall of Fame for Rosie Holidays and Likuliku Lagoon Resort and being the most awarded tourism and hospitality company in Fiji’s history with multiple excellence in Tourism Awards and the Prime Minister’s International Business Awards and so many other amazing achievements.
“The gallery is really a passing parade of innovation, excellence and Fiji’s first. “Today (yesterday) is the official opening of the Rosie Gallery, and we invite all our guests, employees from Rosie Holidays, Rosie Outsourcing and Ahura Resorts to visit the gallery and immerse yourselves in some of the amazing milestones that as a company we have been able to achieve.”