FIJI recorded a total of 105,791 visitors who arrived in the country in July alone this year, marking the highest monthly visitor arrivals ever recorded.
This is also the first time that monthly arrivals have exceeded the 100,000 mark.
The July figures represent an increase of 6.5 per cent compared to July 2025 when 99,311 visitors were recorded – an increase of 7.4 per cent compared to June 2026, which recorded 98,522 visitor arrivals.
According to the Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBoS), visitor arrivals for July stood at 98,332 in 2024 and 93,483 in 2023.
FBoS acting chief executive officer Apisalome Tamani said of the 105,791 visitors, a total of 104,377 came by air while 1414 came by sea.
He said the sea arrivals were mostly seamen on fishing vessels (914) and 500 arrivals by yacht.
“For July 2026, visitors arriving for holiday purposes accounted for 80.1 per cent of total arrivals, 8.7 per cent came to visit their friends or relatives, 1.6 per cent came for business purposes, while 9.6 per cent visited Fiji for other reasons,” Mr Tamani said in the Bureau’s report released on Monday.
According to the Bureau’s statistics, the major source markets of Australia, New Zealand, USA, China, Continental Europe, Canada and the UK continued to dominate visitor arrivals in Fiji in July this year, accounting for 91.8 per cent of total arrivals.
Visitors from Australia totalled 45,907 (43.4 per cent); 28,430 visitors (26.9 per cent) from New Zealand; 13,428 (12.7 per cent) – USA; China – 3117 (2.9 per cent); Continental Europe – 3093 (2.9 per cent); Canada – 1722 (1.6 per cent); and UK – 1393 – 1.3 per cent.
Mr Tamani said majority of visitors were in the age range of 25-64 years (59.3 per cent), which accounted for the vast majority of the working age population.
Children aged 14 and below accounted for 18.3 per cent of the July visitor arrivals; 11.6 per cent were youths aged 15-24, with the remaining 10.8 per cent comprising those in the predominantly retirement age group of 65 and over.
Meanwhile, Mr Tamani said 15,694 Fiji residents departed the country during July – of which 13,665 (87.1 per cent) were for a short-term absence of under three months and 914 (5.8 per cent) were for an absence of three months to less than 12 months.
He added 1115 (7.1 per cent) of resident departures were for a longer-term absence of one yer or more.
