{"id":144229,"date":"2025-11-20T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144229\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:48:12","slug":"rbf-warns-of-risks-despite-tourism-recovery-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144229\/","title":{"rendered":"RBF warns of risks despite tourism recovery \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RBF.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s visitor arrivals are showing strong signs of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>This rebound puts the country on track for a third consecutive year of record tourism numbers this year.<\/p>\n<p>However, the sugar industry faces challenges, with cane and sugar output for the 2025 crushing season revised downward.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The fishing sector is also expected to decline due to changing weather patterns and reduced stock.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity, ICT, and real estate are projected to grow but at slower rates than previously forecast.<\/p>\n<p>For the medium term, 2026\u20132028, the economy is expected to expand by around 3.0 percent annually, with services remaining the main driver, supported by industrial and primary sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Bank Governor and Macroeconomic Committee Chair Ariff Ali cautioned that global uncertainties, weaker tourism activity and domestic structural issues continue to pose risks.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the current cyclone season increases the threat of severe weather, particularly for agriculture and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Macroeconomic Committee will reassess the outlook in the second quarter of next year.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji\u2019s visitor arrivals are showing strong signs of recovery. This rebound puts the country on track for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-144229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}