{"id":259852,"date":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259852\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","slug":"projects-lag-despite-incentives-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259852\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects lag despite incentives \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/frcs-2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[File Photo]<\/p>\n<p>Fiji has provided close to one billion dollars in tax incentives to the tourism sector, but several major projects are facing delays due to regulatory and infrastructure constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a panel at the Third Fiji Tourism Convention, Fiji Revenue and Customs Service Chief Executive Udit Singh said around $850 million in short-term investment incentives were granted to the tourism industry last year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Singh says over the past three years, tourism-related incentive packages have totaled about one billion dollars, covering investment concessions ranging from five to fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them are related to environmental impact systems. Some of them are related to permits. Some of them are related to the availability of funding permits. And construction-related issues. So, you know, there\u2019s a holistic approach to supporting the tourism industry in terms of making sure that there\u2019s infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he states that despite the high uptake of incentives, several approved projects are not progressing at the expected pace.<\/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":"[File Photo] Fiji has provided close to one billion dollars in tax incentives to the tourism sector, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-259852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259852","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=259852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}