Australia a Key Growth Market as Tahiti seeks to Increase Visitor Arrivals 16 June 2005 The President of French Polynesia, Mr Oscar Temaru, said today that new nonstop air services between Sydney and Papeete would form a major part of a new strategy to build Tahiti's tourist visitor numbers by more than 40 per cent by 2007. Speaking during a visit to Sydney, President Temaru, said tourist numbers to Tahiti were forecast to reach 212,000 for the whole of 2005, and targetted at 300,000 visitors in 2007. President Temaru was speaking during a visit to the Tahiti Tourisme office in Sydney, ahead of the launch next month of nonstop flights by Air Tahiti Nui, the international airline of Tahiti and her Islands. "In the next few weeks, our airline will introduce nonstop services between Tahiti and both Sydney and New York," President Temaru said

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