Diving Holidays and Trips

Welcome to the specialist diving section dedicated to travel agents wanting to offer new, or more, diving holidays or trips in the South Pacific to their customers.  There are many wonderful places throughout the South Pacific that offer unparalleled diving opportunities, from untouched reefs and shipwrecks to a wealth of diverse marine life and pristine dive sites – the choice for divers is endless.  This section will support you to help your clients make informed decisions about the destination they choose for their next diving holiday and give you first-hand information about one of the best places to dive in the world.

As a niche market, diving has a significant following with an estimated 10 million active divers worldwide.  Diving holidays are defined as tourist trips for which the main purpose is scuba diving using specialist underwater breathing equipment; however a diving holiday may involve a single dive excursion, or several dives, as part of a wider holiday. It may also include an inexperienced diver who may never have dived before, learning to dive while on holiday.

To make it easier for you to navigate this section, we have divided the information into the following sections:

1.            Diver Profiles:

• What defines a diving tourist and where they come from.

2.            Diving Holidays and Excursions:

• The sort of diving holidays and trips that are most popular.
• The opportunities and/or issues are surrounding their promotion and sale.

3.            Diving in the South Pacific:

• Where the best places are in the South Pacific to dive.
• What is particularly special about each destination.

4.            The Diving Quiz:

• The chapter ends with a set of 20 multiple choice questions of which 10 need to be answered correctly to qualify as a South Pacific Diving Specialist.