TOURIST TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9

TOURIST TRADE.

S. ISLAND ATTRACTIONS. PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Ihe formation of an association to develop tourist traffic in the South Island and Stewart Island will be considered at a conference to be held in Christcliurch in June or -Inly, Invitations to attend the conference will be sent by the Lyttelton Harbour Board to I harbour boards, city, borough and county councils, tourist and travel organisations, hotel and hostel interests, progress leagues, chambers ol commerce, automobile associations and other organisations in the South Island interested in the development and welfare of the tourist trade. It is proposed to call the organisation the South Island Travel Association of New Zealand, and it will be modelled 011 the Australian National Travel Association. The draft constitution proposed sets out 15 objects, the first, of which is to provide machinery by which interested organisations may co-operate to develop and maintain tourist traffic as well as the scenic resorts and amenities of the South Island and Stewart Island. It is proposed that the island should be divided into six tourist regions, each to have representation on a general committee, the regions being the provinces of Nelson, Westland, Southland (with Stewart Island), Otago, Canterbury and Marlborough.