A tourist resort manager in Fiji says 2009 is looking like being the worst year in the past decade.
Political unrest there has prompted warnings for tourists to take extra care.
Pearl's sales and marketing manager Raumati Wikaire says the boutique resort has so far been able to retain its staff.
But, she says, it is now focusing on markets outside the traditional ones of Australia and New Zealand.
Larger hotels with many rooms to fill are discounting heavily in efforts to boost business.
