Eyes On The Auala : Tourism & Economy
Business Owners Views on Tourism & Economic Boost
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Fiata. Tuala
Age: 52
Village:Vaimoso Papauta
Fiata's Elei Fashion
Personally, I feel so happy because the truth is that I just came and stay at the market and then go back home without getting any customer's but thankfully the borders are open for now, all tourist are coming back to Samoa and they will buy our handicraft and it will benefit us so that we can help our family out.
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Tamarina
Age: 32
Village: Vaitele.Uta
I feel very happy this morning because tourist are coming back to Samoa and also this is the second cruise ship of this year 2022 and it's a great help to us and I believe it is a great source of income that we get from foreign tourist.
Vel. Tolo
Age: 30
Village: Vaisigano
Loano design
To me I thank God that the borders have been opened to help us sellers to earn money to help out our family because the truth is Without tourist we don't have any customer's to buys our handicraft
Faamati. Anapapa
Age: 32
Village: Vaipuna
Thank God that the government has given permission to reopen borders for samoa which had made it possible for people from overseas to visit our country and it will be a great source of income to help our family especially people like us who need to find customer to buy our product so that we put a food on a table to feed our family.
Tariu.Paia
Village:Vaitele fou
Sulu style
At the time before Samoa was hit by the disease, there were many customers was visiting our country and that it was a good income for us the sellers that we get from them at that time but during lockdown all it's like a saddest day for us because we came in the morning thought that we will have customers but at the end of the day we get nothing. But thank God that borders are begun to open for our Country it help us out during the time of being poor.
Koreta. Elia
Age:38
Village: Laulii
Ioata Fashion
My personal opinion is that when samoa was affected by disease it was a big impact on us business workers who no longer have customers because of the COVID-19 restrictions, but thankfully its now open all foreign tourist are coming back to visit our country again and we will get more purchase our family and other families.