Charlotte Gallagher

So I think there's a feeling of the old guard is still in charge.

And perhaps, you know, there's a lot of distrust around politics.

The country's had four coups since the 1980s.

And each of those coups have been linked in some way to ethnic tensions between countries.

indigenous Fijians and Fijians of South Asian descent.

So the fourth coup was when Frank Bainimarama took power.

That was also linked to ethnic tensions.

There are general elections that are expected to take place between August of this year and February of next year.

But certainly there's a kind of a deep distrust, a difficult political climate in Fiji right now.

Katie Watson.

It used to be that a review from a major publication could make or break a restaurant.

Now that power increasingly lies with influencers who can turn a family-run cafe into a viral hit or flood a major restaurant chain with bad reviews.

Now owners and customers around the world are starting to take action to crack down on what they call entitled behaviour.

Stephanie Prentice reports.

When you go into a new city, for restaurateurs now, it is the only way for people to know that you're going into a city.

So it's a kind of wise marketing strategy.

But yes, you do pay, very often you are paying for the meals.

People come in with changes of outfits.

And if they go and do that in the toilets, then actually it'd be churlish to kind of, you know, to object to it in a way because they are out there telling people how beautiful the restaurants are.

But it can get to the point where, yes, when they bring lights in and there are tripods and they're not eating the food.