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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32253, 23 March 1970, Page 14

New Zealand attracts biggest PATA Conference of all time! Record bookings from 39 countries, 45 airlines and 8 shipping lines! The South Pacific is the tourist area of the seventies. And New to visit us in the future, president’s message Zealand is its hub. Few who have seen the registrations pour in for Experience has proved the nineteenth Pacific Area Travel Association Conference, to be that a rise in tourist held for the first time in ten years in this country, could doubt this ?P enc *mg of at least 20 % CB I “ invariably accrues to the I irum. host countr y y\ n( j this * f The Conference starts on New Zealand Day (15th form action songs, poi has been as much as 13th April in Auckland. April). dances and hakas. God- 100%. ~9| The Queen City’s hotels Delegates and their wives frey Bowen's band of Besides the more obvious EB will be full to bursting will be the guests of the performing sheep, identi- choices of Waitomo. with travel experts of all Hotel Association of cal to those which will Waitangi, Rotorua. Waikinds—nearly a thousand New Zealand, the Wine enthral visitors to Expo rakei, Mount Cook, Mil- Mr. ‘Bob' Austin, PATA delegates and wives will and Spirit Merchants and ’7O, will do a stunt that ford and Queenstown. President 1969-70 come on here from the the Breweries from all surely could come from delegates have been in- ](isn’t y e t possible to say curtain-raiser workshop over New Zealand. nowhere in the world but vited to ask for tours to exactly what this year’s in Tahiti. So it is not surprising New Zealand. And just be hand-tailored to out- conference will bring A wonderful welcome that many excellent New to show that we are fast of-the-way spots they forth, though its outcome awaits them. For the Zealand wines will be becoming a cosmopolitan may have missed on pre- w ,n favourably affect us week of the Conference, served. These are now race the Yugoslav kolo vious visits to this coun- as New Zealanders, whe-13th-17th April, Queen earning a reputation dancers will perform. try. ther we are directly conStreet will be the shop among connoisseurs the PATA AND PEOPLE 15 MILLION VISITORS cemed with the tourist window of the Pacific. world over. This year’s PATA Con- BY 1975 industry or not. A Film Festival has SURPRISING ference is sternly practi- PATA is an international This is the message sent drawn a hundred entries, What will cause a stir, cal. It recognises from organisation founded to delegates by the Cona poster competition over however, for those unused the start that Tourism is with the object of con- ference President, who in two hundred. There will t o such sights, will be People. So this year the sistently increasing visi- this, for us, epoch-making be fashion shows for the two g rea t beer tankers PATA emphasis goes on tors to the Pacific area, year is Mr ‘Bob’ Austin, ladies. Travel presenta- q, art o f NZ’s unique people. On their accom- As more visitors come General Manager of the tions for their menfolk, *p or tal to portal’ beer modation. Their trans- and PATA forecasts that N.Z. Tourist and Publicand entertainment from delivery system) from port. Their food and by 1975 there will be 1.5 ity Department, groups of artists from which draught beer will drink. And above all their million! PATA be- “Ten years ago we in around the Pacific area. be drawn direct for the Zealand couldn’t HANG! delectation visitors, have found accommodaThe highlight for many while they enjoy the ori- E[|l*Jji’ltion in one city for the who have never before ginal New Zealand enter-1000 delegates and their visited these shores will tainment offered. we expect at this be a Hangi and Barbecue The Rev. Kingi Ihaka’s comfort. (It is interesting comes more sophisticated year’s PATA conference, meal to be served on Maori troupe will per- t 0 note that in the most in its approach. Now w< > can. recently published PATA The last PATA Confer- “Perhaps this gives some h° le ! roonl figures. New ence endorsed the recom- indication of the leap Zealand offers the tourist mendations of the Execu- forward we in New ZeaIB 181 more *’ o,el rooms P er tive Director. Mr Marvin land have made in hotel *' capita than any other Plake, that emphasis accommodation to date. Pacific nation a tour- CHANGES IN THE Our current annual IB ,st ’ h fi ot f’ r . 0 0"? of n j NEW ZEALAND SCENE spendmg on new hotel Qf « specified Standard and Sin(f lhf pATA Con/erence building is calculated at Ol s h as private facilities in was in ten some 10 million dollars a ' ilk form of shower —or years ago there have been year. 1 bath and toilet). m«. nv cAangw <Wr«d,. .... . rMn ; n „ affect tourists Already we are reaping t W ' Itir A 1 SOCIALLY DESIGNED : t t 1 NZ - TOURS b Ch ,h 7t ttS 'i ,e [ d r s unfinished financial vS s I W. 1 »Ow COUrSC - h iSn ? hZ\2 d e'ntof‘"e g 29% up. Our gain t > iJIIIiL P° s ? ,ble assess the Though the latter doesn't must also be our neigh- * varied delights of New affect hotel residents drink- hour’s gain. It is my < ? iWiP aHHIk S Zealand from Auckland. their own hotels thal in the j 9Ws f B orthisreason d 7V f it- K: t,c overseas delegates, nOUJ t h ey can en j oy a developing tourist area | ® “ w r R who comprise over 90% in the civilised manner to jn the world will be the I / Aul W of aU thosc alt «nding. u ’ hich mo!l are lon R accus - Pacific.” » 5 '* Tfc -Bl will stay on in this coun- —I z . » "y f° r a f ur, fi er f° ur t 0 should be put on hotel | ; -■« tf f’ ve a y s a^ter t * le C° n " accommodation in the 'Bfc WW gy ference proper is over. whole area and that ’S&ajjß || Tourshave been arranged PATA should direct its RKBfeaM— to the beauty spots of efforts towards giving Two lovely New Zealand girls both experienced in helping both islands and these technical assistance, such L- ifVx travellers, will act as hostesses to delegates and wives to are offered to PATA aS hotel seminars and l j e Conference to be held in Auckland starting delegates at special rates research seminars, to fo P r r, Air 3 tllat take * nt ° aCC ° Unt " oUntHe ' S that ha '’ e P™ l ” Cunningham, of the Government Tourist Bureau m enormous numbers of lems in tOUDSt develop- j II Auckland tourists they can influence ment. •«=** “ks,. no» j