INDIAN TOURIST DIRECTOR
Visit To Christchurch
A warm, sunny day in Christchurch on Monday made the director of tourism for the Indian Government in Australia and New Zealand (Mr C. R. Ratnakar) feel very much at home. Mr Ratnakar’s work, selling India to New Zealanders, had been made much easier through Sir Edmund Hillary, he said. ! “The people have been made very much more aware of our country, and the foothills where there are tourist resorts because of him,” he said as he was about to fly back to Melbourne. India was very new to the tourist trade and would take a long ; time to catch New Zealand up. said Mr Ratnakar. The average hotel in New Zealand was much better than those in India. He has toured the South Island extensively—“the small places too because that is where the ! potential traveller is.” He will return in June to »ee more of the South IblamA.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28853, 25 March 1959, Page 22
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