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Hospitality, the Tanoa Way

Tanoa Hotels was founded in Fiji in 1965 by Yanktesh Permal Reddy, known to all as YP Reddy. An Indian-Fijian entrepreneur and champion of local communities, he built Fiji’s first locally owned tourist hotel near Nadi and opened its doors to domestic travellers and international visitors alike, at a time when Pacific-owned hotels did not exist. Tanoa changed that.

Today the group has eight hotels across Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. We are family-owned and have been trusted for more than 60 years by business travellers, families and explorers.

A tanoa is the carved bowl used across the Pacific to share kava. It is a symbol of coming together, of sharing and belonging, and of welcoming strangers as family. It is our name and it is how we host.

That is the Tanoa Way.

Our Values

Sincerity, care and innovation. These are not aspirations at Tanoa Hotels. They are the daily standard for every member of our team, from executive leadership to heart-of-house staff. We look after our communities and environment because our business was built that way. See how we put that into practice.

Tanoa Hotels is part of Reddy Group, one of the Pacific’s most established and respected family businesses, founded in Fiji in 1947. What began as a small construction company in Suva grew, through decades of ambition and integrity, into a globally diversified family business with investments spanning tourism, hospitality, and beyond.

Today, Reddy Group is led by Rohit and Kamini Reddy, children of the late YP Reddy (CF, OBE), whose vision created Tanoa Hotels and whose legacy of community, generosity and Pacific pride lives on in everything the group does. The Reddy Foundation, established to support education, health, and poverty relief across the Pacific, is a direct expression of that legacy.

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