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Kevin Bowler: Hotel investment needed

Publish Date
Fri, 22 Apr 2016, 8:48AM

Kevin Bowler: Hotel investment needed

Publish Date
Fri, 22 Apr 2016, 8:48AM

There's excitement among tourism operators in Queenstown at the news a deal to bring 10,000 Chinese Amway agents has been clinched.

They'll come in groups of 500 in the shoulder seasons of 2017/2018, although exact dates have yet to be set.

Destination Queenstown chief executive Graham Budd said it was fantastic news for the business community, and the town has more than enough staff and capacity to cope with those sorts of numbers.

But that's not the case in other parts of the country: Tourism New Zealand chief executive Kevin Bowler told Mike Hosking there must be a push to encourage investment in hotel development.

"We're seeing the interest and investment in hotels at an all time, but we probably also have to get proactive and present the case to hotel investors and say New Zealand's really turned around," he said.

LISTEN TO KEVIN BOWLER'S FULL INTERVIEW WITH MIKE HOSKING ABOVE

 

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