Nila Beach Resort in Vuda, Lautoka, will continue its $70million upgrade program once the tourism industry recovers from the impacts of COVID-19.

Resort general manager Mohan Chinnusamy said work had come to an abrupt halt because of the downturn in tourism.

“So far we have spent about $10million on the current development,” he said.

“But our initial plan is to build more rooms and over the water bure which in total will cost us about $70million.”

Mr Chinnusamy said the resort was far from complete.

“We are only up to stage 2 of our development. There are another eight stages of development left which is on hold at the moment. The next stage is to build 62 rooms which will be housed in about three double-storey buildings and after we will add another 22 rooms.

“After these developments, we will introduce our over-the-water rooms.

“We have 40 acres of land under our property and we haven’t really used a lot of that land.

“There is still a lot of work left to be done. In total, our development is supposed to have more than 200 rooms.”