Cleared Up U.S. Misconceptions
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 7. The New Zealand tourist mission to America succeeded in clearing up a widelyheld misconception among American travel agents that New Zealand’s tourist attractions are not matched by the standard of accommodation.
Stating this on his return to Wellington, the co-leader of the mission, the general manager of the Tourist and Publicity Department (Mr R. S. Odell) said that the mission had addressed more than 1000 representatives of America’s leading travel agencies during the four-week tour. “We found that a great many of them had rather inaccurate ideas of the type of accommodation we have here,” Mr Odell said. “Accommodation is of tremendous importance and we feel that we have succeeded in getting the message across that New Zealand has moved a long way from the primitive image many of them had of ~, ••
who said he felt the mission had achieved much in tourist promotion and “education of American travel agents.”
On the mission with Mr Odell was the chief executive of the Travel and Holidays Association (Mr N. R. Lobb)
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 1
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