The Incredible Story of How One Luxury Resort Survived the Pandemic

There was more than $1,750 dollars’ worth of cheese in the walk-in refrigerator in March of 2020 when word came down: VOMO Island Fiji, a tony resort on a 225-acre private island in the South Pacific, would have to close. No one could say for how long. But a then-unknown virus called COVID-19 was spreading rapidly across Asia and while there had been few reported cases in Fiji, the government was shutting its borders to international travelers. The effect on the economy was immediate and troubling. Tourism accounts for about 40% of the country’s GDP and 120,000 people would lose… Read Full Article