Ofesi Yachilendo imalangiza alendo aku UK kuti achoke ku Samoa

Tsamba la Ofesi Yachilendo ndi Commonwealth Office lasinthidwa lero kuti lipangitse mayendedwe onse koma ofunikira kupita ku Samoa mpaka atadziwitsidwanso.

Samoa, yomwe kale inkadziwika kuti Western Samoa, ndi chigawo chaching'ono cha American Samoa, chomwe chili ku United States, ndi gulu la zilumba za Samoa zomwe zili ndi anthu pafupifupi 250,000.

Zilumbazi zimadalira kwambiri zokopa alendo, zomwe zadutsa ulimi monga momwe zimathandizira kwambiri pa GDP pa 25 peresenti, zomwe zimapanga $ 116.5 miliyoni (£ 75 miliyoni).

Chiwerengero cha alendo obwera ku Samoa chinafika 122,000, ndipo alendo ambiri ochokera ku Australia ndi New Zealand, komanso ochepera 10 peresenti ochokera ku Britain.

Webusaiti ya alendo ku Samoa (visitsamoa.ws) yagwa m'mawa uno chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa magalimoto pambuyo pa chivomezichi.

Richard Green, katswiri woyendera maulendo a Sunday Times, amakonda kupita kuzilumba za Pacific. Posachedwapa iye ananena kuti Samoa ndi pachilumba chabwino kwambiri pazilumba zonse za ku South Pacific ndipo ndi bwino kuyendetsa galimoto ngakhale kuti anthu ambiri amamvapo za kuponya miyala. Tsopano zikhala zodziwika bwino kwa alendo aku Britain dzikolo litasankha kusintha kuchoka kumanja kupita kumanzere koyambirira kwa mwezi uno.

Green adauza Times Online kuti: "Samoa ili paulendo wokayendera alendo makamaka chifukwa cha ntchito za Air New Zealand zochokera ku Auckland komanso Los Angeles. Komanso Polynesian Airlines amanyamula kuchokera ku New Zealand ndi Australia.

"Imalandila alendo obwera m'njira motero ndipo pamakhala kuyimitsidwa kwa magalimoto pamsewu wa Down Under. Sikodziwika ngati Fiji ndi madera ena aku South Pacific.

“American Samoa si malo oyendera alendo. Ndi yaying'ono yokhala ndi malo ochepa oyendera alendo, osati magombe abwino chotere komanso palibe maulendo apandege achindunji kulikonse, kupatula ku Apia."

Samoa ili pa Pacific "Ring of Fire", dera lomwe lili ndi zivomezi komanso mapiri ophulika kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi ndipo pafupifupi 90 peresenti ya zivomezi zapadziko lonse lapansi. Chivomezi champhamvu cha 6.9 pa sikelo ya Richter chinachitika pa mtunda wa makilomita 185 kum’mwera chakumadzulo kwa Samoa pa September 28, 2006.