Tonga’s Ministry for Tourism welcomed the new Minister for Tourism Hon. ‘Akosita Havili Lavulavu, who met members of the Tonga Tourist Association at the Ministry for Tourism Office, Vuna Road, this morning.

Hon. ‘Akosita Lavulavu, recognised the achievement that the former Minister for Tourism Hon. Semisi Sika had made when he was Tonga’s Minister for Tourism during the past four years.

She said her plans for her two-years term as the Minister for Tourism included the building of a National Museum, and also to make Tonga “an Illicit Drugs Free Country”.

She said that after a consultation with Siosaia Moehau, the President of the Tonga Tourist Association, she became aware of 10 urgent needs of the Tourism Industry, and she pledged that they would be working to address them during the next two years.

When Tonga’s Prime Minister, Hon. Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa on 10 October announced his new Cabinet, he named Hon. ‘Akosita Lavulavu, the People Representative for Vava’u No. 16 constituent, as the new Minister for Tourism.

A reshuffling of the  Cabinet last month followed the election of Hon. Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa by 23 members of Parliament as Tonga’s new Prime Minister on 27 September 2019.