Securing adequate transportation and funding remains a twin challenge for American Samoa's tourism industry.
Visitor numbers rebounded slightly in 2014 from 2013, to over 27-thousand following a steady decline from the 30-thousand visitors in 2009.
But a strategic tourism plan seeks to make more of the territory's tourism assets.
Dominic Godfrey has more.
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Ofu and Olosega in the Manu'as in American Samoa. Photo: American Samoa Tourism