STORY: Nauru tourism practitioner hopes for more Chinese tourists
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 18, 19, 2024
DATELINE: Jan. 19, 2024
LENGTH: 00:04:50
LOCATION: Yaren
CATEGORY: CULTURE/SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Nauru (shooting time: Jan. 18, 2024)
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CHARMAINE SCOTTY, Nauru's Minister for Health, Internal Affairs (shooting time: Jan. 19, 2024)
3. various of a store in Nauru (shooting time: Jan. 18, 2024)
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BERLYN, Personal assistant to general manager of Menen Hotel Nauru (shooting time: Jan. 19, 2024)

STORYLINE:

Nauru, an island country in the Central Pacific.

It has a land area of 21.1 square km, and a population of about 13,000.

The country attracts tourists with its beautiful tropical scenery and unique customs.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CHARMAINE SCOTTY, Nauru's Minister for Health, Internal Affairs
"Tourism is very new in Nauru, we're hoping to promote it."

Nauru has announced that it recognizes the one-China principle and had severed "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BERLYN, Personal assistant to general manager of Menen Hotel Nauru
"I feel like this potential, like it's a new step. I've seen some of the Chinese people come, and they look very happy like asking to record videos about them, because it's so exciting to send videos to their families see if they want to come to visit, and I feel it would be good. I feel like the change would bring a lot of more of these people to come and visit. Like I feel it would be good. I feel like the change would bring a lot of Chinese people to come to visit, which is good on our side, and we probably want to go there (China) if we want to visit.
It's different, like as you know when you get to other countries that they have a lot to offer, but Nauru is a small (country). And so I feel like it's very unique in a way because it's so small, it has like minimal stuff. It's like a different experience for people.
Why wouldn't you guys tell your family to come visit? I feel like it's nice for you guys too, they can come to visit."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Yaren.
(XHTV)