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New Caledonia and Vanuatu Tourism Development

Tellus Consultants has been instrumental in assisting Vanuatu and New Caledonia with improving sustainable tourism.

Tourism Guide to Vanuatu Vacations

Using advanced satellite and aerial mapping techniques Dr. Richard Chesher has created a Vanuatu Travel Guide and a Vanuatu Vacations online planner to assist with promoting this small south Pacific destination throughout the world. The Rocket Guide to Vanuatu has satellite image maps of the entire country with a highly interactive navigation system that allows prospective visitors to Vanuatu - or Travel agents that specialise in Vanuatu or travel writers - to quickly survey all the tourism features of every island in Vanuatu.

The user can click on an island to zoom in for a closer look and then point to the names of vanuatu hotels and vanuatu resorts to instantly see summary information and the location of each facility. The guide is perfect for people who wish to plan their vanuatu holiday with detailed information .

Prospective visitors can find tourism vanuatu information on flights to vanuatu, activities vanuatu, vanuatu diving, vanuatu fishing, Vanuatu Tours, vanuatu weddings, vanuatu honeymoon at le lagon vanuatu resort or any other vanuatu accommodation. There is even up to the minute information on vanuatu weather with long range forecasts and climate information.Users can get information on how to call Vanuatu - with the local time in Vanuatu, Vanuatu holidays and office hours,Vanuatu car rental, buses and taxis, Vanuatu conference venues, Restaurants in Vanuatu,

The development team also put over a thousand professional level photographs of all aspects of Vanuatu tourism on line available for free download. These Vanuatu image libraries include Vanuatu Photos , Vanuatu Accommodation Photos and Vanuatu Activity Photos

Cruising Guide to Vanuatu

The team also used the same technology to produce a satellite image based Cruising guide to Vanuatu. This guide provides visiting cruising yachts to Vanuatu with extremely precise and critical information on vanuatu ports of entry, vanuatu marina, vanuatu moorings, yacht services vanuatu, superyacht services vanuatu,

The cruising guide vanuatu provides boat maps vanuatu and nautical maps vanuatu using detailed hi resolution aerial photographs of the vanuatu anchorages with overlays showing depths, dangers, routes with GPS points and other interesting information about the anchorages.

New Caledonia Travel Guide, Annuaire de Tourisme Nouvelle Caledonie

Sustainable tourism in new caledonia - or nouvelle caledonie as it is called in French has been an increasingly important part of the New Caledonia economy over the past few years, especially in rural areas. La nouvelle calédonie is located just 780 nautical miles east of Brisbane, Australia.

Tellus Consultants produced a virtual new caledonia map ( or carte nouvelle caledonie ) with satellite imagery of New Caledonia. But the CD Rom travel guide to New Caledonia is far more than just a map. It is a virtual atlas of tourism information about New Caledonia with over 700 tourism features located precisely on the satellite and aerial images. You can, for example, find any new caledonia hotel with just two clicks, plus there is a summary about new caledonia hotels and resorts that helps anyone plan a new caledonia vacation. It's not easy to plan new caledonia vacations - especially for people who don't speak French.

English speaking Travel agents and people planning to set up new caledonia holidays often find the French websites about New Caledonia are in French and those which are not tend to concentrate solely on noumea new caledonia - and especially hotels in Anse Vata noumea new caledonia. Travel to new caledonia begins with finding out about flights to new caledonia and then, if the traveller wants to go beyond Noumea, also finding out about domestic flights in New Caledonia. New Caledonia visas are not required for most tourists, but it's best to check to be sure because travellers from some countries (like the US) - can only stay in New Caledonia for 30 days without getting a tourist visa before arriving.

The first step in planning a New Caledonia Vacation is deciding what KIND of a vacation you would like. There are several possibilities.

Anse Vata, in Noumea, is the International travel centre of New Caledonia. This is where you'll find the big Noumea hotels and resorts, fine restaurants, and a zillion things to do. Within a very small area - you can stroll along the waterfront promenade from Le Meridien to Le Mocambo in about 15 minutes and within this area are all the major hotels, all the New Caledonia conference venues, the majority of the New Caledonia restaurants, the best beaches, the Aquarium, shopping malls, Noumea weddings coordinators, new caledonia tours agencies, and casinos.

Noumea is also the gateway to the world's largest lagoon and second largest Barrier Reef. New Caledonia fishing boats,
New Caledonia boat rentals, yacht charters and boat trips , new caledonia diving trips, are all organized in Noumea and all of the details on how to do this and who to contact are on the Rocket Guide to New Caledonia.

But there is so much more to New Caledonia than Noumea and any visitor to New Caledonia should consider a short 20 minute domestic flight to the Ile des Pins (Isle of Pines). Isle of Pines New Caledonia hotels, resorts and other accommodation range from very expensive to camping. The Rocket Guide to New Caledonia shows all the accommodation of Isle of Pines on high resolution photographs, both from the air and on the ground - including 3D virtual reality tours of many of the resorts.

The Loyalty Islands are only a 40 minute domestic flight from Magenta airport in Noumea. There are three Loyalty Islands, Ouvea, Lifou, and Mare. Lifou is actually larger than the island of Tahiti and has only a couple of thousand people living on it. These are great holiday destinations and well worth a visit.

One excellent and relatively inexpensive way to discover vanuatu is Fly/Drive New Caledonia holidays essentially a round the island tour of Grande Terre - where the first stop is a new caledonia car rental agency. Or perhaps a new caledonia tours agency to arrange a round-the-island safari. Rental car new caledonia are only slightly more expensive than in Australia, so fly/drive vacations combined with camping, is the least expensive (and often the most rewarding) way to travel to new caledonia. The Rocket Guide to Vanuatu CD has a special Fly/Drive holiday section with road maps, camping sites and New Caledonia accommodation, hotels and resorts on Grande Terre outside of Noumea.

On the Rocket Guide website you can even check on the long term new caledonia weather forecasts - because the weather in new caledonia makes all the difference between a good vacation and a great vacation.

New Caledonia travel info is available at travel information points throughout New Caledonia. You can quickly get information on most of the essential things you need to know for a New Caledonia holiday - such as the current rate of exchange of new caledonia money, the local new caledonia time and business hours, information on New Caledonia Internet cafés and New Caledonia Mobile phones - GSM New Caledonia,

There are a wealth of activities for visitors to New Caledonia - the French people of New Caledonia adore sports of all kinds and are very active. Which means that visitors will find all the facilities they could wish to enjoy themselves. For some sporting ideas see Sporting Events New Caledonia,New Caledonia Horseback Riding andNew Caledonia golf courses.

The Rocket Guide to New Caledonia online photo librarys offer the following libraries of professional stock photo images (available for free downloading) - New Caledonia cultural photos, New Caledonia Wildlife, the New Caledonia Lagoon, New Caledonia museums and sights, New Caldeonia Hotels, Resorts and Camping and New Caledonia Diving, Tours, and Transport photos.

Cruising guide to New Caledonia - Guide Nautique Nouvelle Caledonie

The satellite image approach to understanding New Caledonia is especially useful to people who wish to visit New Caledonia aboard cruising yachts of people who with to charter a yacht in New Caledonia. The New Caledonia cruising guide shows detailed information on new caledonia anchorages new caledonia marinas,noumea yacht services, yacht charter noumea, superyacht services new caledonia, new caledonia weather and new caledonia ports.

High resolution satellite and aerial photography provide detailed nautical charts of new caledonia. These nautical maps of new caledonia
create a unique sailing guide for new caledonia that opens new possibilities for new caledonia yachting and yacht charter new caledonia .

The guide is in both English and French, with information on location bateau nouvelle caledonie, location bateau noumea, mouillages nouvelle caledonie, guide mouillage nouvelle caledonie

These activities tie in closely with other productions including

island cruising, south pacific cruising, south pacific cruising papua new guinea, cruising fiji, cruising australia, cruising pittwater and sydney,

cruising the solomon islands, cruising palau, cruising samoa and other south pacific adventures.