Vanuatu Tourism Office is taking one of its best-known trade events across the Coral Sea, with Tok Tok Vanuatu on Tour set to make its Australian debut in Brisbane and Sydney this October.
The two-city roadshow will bring Vanuatu tourism operators face-to-face with Australian travel advisors on 13 October at Lina Rooftop in Brisbane and 14 October at ivy Sunroom in Sydney. Humanitix listings confirm the evening programs will run from 6 pm to 8.30 pm, with registrations requested by Friday, 18 September.
It is a sensible piece of destination marketing at a time when Australia remains Vanuatu’s heavyweight visitor market. Australian arrivals in January 2026 were 42 per cent higher than in January 2020, according to figures cited by Vanuatu Tourism Office in current trade communications. In an industry fond of talking about “reconnection”, Vanuatu is putting the word into practice and, refreshingly, doing it in a room rather than on another video call.
Tok Tok is hardly a newcomer. The established VTO trade event returned in Vanuatu in 2023 after a four-year break, bringing local tourism businesses together with international buyers and showcasing the destination beyond Port Vila. This year’s Australian edition takes that familiar formula to the people who are often closest to the booking decision: travel advisors.
Operators from Efate, Espiritu Santo and Tanna are expected to join the program, representing accommodation, touring and attractions. VIP daytime information sessions will be followed by evening networking, with destination updates and practical selling points designed to sharpen product knowledge and give advisors more confidence when recommending Vanuatu.
For a nation of 83 islands, that matters. Vanuatu is easy to reduce to the postcard staples: blue water, palms and a volcano behaving badly in the background, but the sales opportunity is broader.
Santo brings diving, beaches and blue holes; Tanna delivers one of the Pacific’s great adventure drawcards; and Efate remains the gateway for travellers wanting culture, resorts and easy access to Port Vila. The official Vanuatu Tourism website provides advisors with further destination and product information.
Vanuatu Tourism Office CEO Adela Issachar Aru said bringing Tok Tok to Australia marked an important milestone for the destination.
“Tok Tok has always been about bringing people together over a love of Vanuatu and this October, we’re taking that spirit to Australia for the first time,” she said.
“With 83 islands worth discovering, we can’t wait to put our operators in the room with the agents who help Australians answer the call of Vanuatu every day.”
Both quotations have been retained verbatim from the published source material.
Melbourne adds another bite at the trade cherry
The timing also gives Vanuatu another chance to build trade momentum before the roadshow begins.
VTO is confirmed as an exhibitor at Travel Agent Day Australia – TADA26 at The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne on 1 October, extending the destination’s Australian trade presence to a third capital. The official TADA26 program confirms the event date and Melbourne venue.
For advisors, Tok Tok Vanuatu on Tour offers something the travel trade still values enormously: direct access to suppliers, up-to-date product knowledge, and the chance to ask questions without a chatbot, password reset, or hold music in sight.
Register for Tok Tok Vanuatu on Tour
Brisbane – Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Lina Rooftop – Register through Humanitix
Sydney – Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Ivy Sunroom – Register through Humanitix
Trade information is also available through Welkam Vanuatu, while consumer destination information is available on the official Vanuatu Tourism Office website.
For Vanuatu, the message is straightforward. Australia is not merely a nearby source market; it is central to the destination’s tourism recovery and future growth.
Bringing Tok Tok to Brisbane and Sydney puts Vanuatu’s operators closer to the advisors who can turn curiosity into bookings and 83 islands into considerably more than 83 reasons to sell.
By: Anne Keam – © 2026.
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Anne Keam’s story begins in Queensland, on a grain farm in the state’s wide western reaches, where the days were long and the lessons simple: work hard, look after your own, and don’t make a fuss. Those early years left their mark.
She later studied Arts at the University of Queensland, before doing what felt natural at the time, heading back home to the family property. But the world was calling. Anne packed a backpack and went looking, spending years on the road and finding herself most alive in South America. She wrote everything down along the way. Those notebooks, full of dust, colour, and curiosity, eventually became her blog, a quiet, personal record of seeing the world and learning from it.
