Travel agents to meet in Nandi for convention

Press, 7 September 1976, Page 27

Travel agents to meet in Nandi for convention

The Government’s controversial travel tax will be one of the main points under fire at the annual convention of the Travel Agents’ Association of New Zealand which will be held in Nandi next month. The theme of the conference will be ‘‘T.A.A.N.Z. Across the Pacific”. The convention will be opened by Fiji’s Minister of Finance, Mr C. A. Stinson, at a dinner in the Regent of Fiji Hotel on October 5. Next day delegates will get down to the serious business of trying to improve the lot of the New Zealand

traveller.- Before settling into workshop lessons, delegates will hear an address by Mr Paddy Doyle, general manager of Fiji Visitors’ Bureau. The guest speaker the following day will be Mr J. Mavoa, Minister for Communications, Works and Tourism in Fiji. The convention will be closed by the association's president, Mr G. F. Alpe, of Auckland, and New Zealand’s Minister of Tourism (Mr Lapwood). It will be the second time in 11 years that the convention has been held outside New Zealand — in 1974 delegates met in Noumea.

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