WELLINGTON, June 21 (Xinhua) -- South Pacific Samoa's Visitor Bureau said on Wednesday that it expected China to provide the biggest growing tourism market in the future, According to Radio New Zealand International.

    Chief executive officer of Samoa's Visitor Bureau Reupena Matafeo said that the latest figures show good growth in both arrivals and money spent by the tourists from Australia and New Zealand.

    He said there are offices marketing Samoa in London and Berlin and some work has just got underway in Japan.

    Matafeo said they hope to open an office in China before the end of this year and then work on improving the transport links between the two countries.

    "Hopefully be able to convince them to organize direct flights from China to Samoa because at the moment they have to go via New Zealand," said Matafeo.

    Samoa, known as Western Samoa until 1997, consists of nine volcanic islands, two of which - Savai'i and Upolu - comprise more than 99 percent of the land, which forms typical landscapes as tourism attractions. Enditem