The Rarotongan Beach Resort and Lagoonarium, typically welcomes a few hundred Russian guests a year, but over the weekend this message appeared on its social media pages - 'With regret, Russians are banned from our hotels until every single Russian soldier has left Ukraine.'
The post has since been deleted but Tata Crocombe said he stands by his decision despite critics calling it 'discriminatory'.
However, Crocombe said the resort ban would eventually be softened to only apply to Russian citizens who support Vladimir Putin's war.
