IMAGE: View from the end of the Vatia Beach Eco Resort hike trail.

The Fiji Times credits Sir Hugh Hall Ragg with operating the country’s ‘first bonafide resort’. He also founded a chain of hotels.

But Vatia Beach was the private retreat of his descendant, Ba lawyer Hugh Petrie Ragg.

Vatia Beach can be traced back to the Ragg family, which has become synonymous in Fiji with tourism.