Honiara Hotel fare. On Sunday 1 June 1969 the hotel was opened with an event held between 17:30 and 19:30 and attended by around 400 guests including Tommy Chan's father Chan Wing. During the April/May 2006 riots in Honiara, Sir Tommy Chan, owner of the Honiara Hotel, a naturalised Chinese of the Islands, the hotel and his son's shop were targeted for attack but escaped due to support from some islanders, Christian brotherhood and the police. Honiara Hotel The Honiara Hotel is located in Chinatown in Honiara, Solomon Islands. It is a 56-room establishment which has different grades of rooms catering to
Honiara in the town, conducting surveys all across the islands and investigating leprosy. He departed and returned to Fiji in late March 1955. The town grew significantly after Honiara became the capital city, receiving two-thirds of the allocations granted for the country's economic development in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in substantial infrastructure development. Population growth was very slow and only about 5% of Solomon Islanders were living in the city. However, the Bellonese population significantly increased; they established permanent and semi-permanent houses in the Honiara vicinity, typically along the banks of the White River. The town was affected by creolisation.