Tahiti Tourism has reportedly been offered a full page in the Los Angeles Times after an article in the paper confused Tahiti with Haiti.
According to Radio1 in Tahiti, the LA Times bought the article from a Spanish agency and published it in June.
To make up for the error, the paper is now reportedly prepared to carry a full page of publicity for Tahiti, worth up to $US100,000.
The agency, One World Media, has republished a corrected version of the article