N.Z. TOURIST POTENTIAL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29684, 30 November 1961, Page 24

N.Z. TOURIST POTENTIAL

“Green Pastures, Homely Hotels” (NZ Press Association) AVCKLAItr). Nov. 29. New Zealand’s tourist potential can be developed without spending millions of pounds on luxury hotels, says an American writer and photographer Charles Meyer, who arrived in the Monterey today. "The wealthy American tourist doesn’t want to see your cities—■that’s what he’s left behind in the States—he just wants to take his tie off and enjoy the real New Zealand, the green pastures, the mountains, and the trout streams,” he said. “Small, homely, inexpensive hotels or motels, right in the heart of the country, are all he wants.” Mr Meyer Is compiling a series of articles on the South Pacific. New Zealand, and Australia for several American magazines and the United Press. He is also arranging a fishermen’s "dream holiday” in New Zealand tor 15 wealthy American industrialists. He spent a month here earlier this year. “New Zealand is practically unheard of on the east coast and the south of the United States, and I found it impossible to arrange this tour firom New York,” be said. It was particularly frustrating, "having been right through this wonderful country,” that the American just did not know what New Zealand bad to offer. "Honestly Australia is not a patch on New Zealand.” he said. "You won’t get anything until you put a sign up,” he advised.