Department restructured

Press, 24 October 1984, Page 21

Department restructured

PA Wellington The ever-changing Tourist and Publicity Department is being restructured yet again. The new management structure will see the general manager and his deputy supported by two assistant directors-general, one responsible for tourism marketing and the other for corporate and publicity services.

The present director of tourism marketing, Mr Gowan Patton, will assume the first assistant directorgeneral’s position. The second is being advertised this week. The deputy general manager, Mr Peter Brooke, said the changes were necessary because the tourism scene was becoming increasingly complicated, with more emphasis on tourism policy. “We have traditionally

been a department that has, I suppose, been a very large national travel agency with, of course, significant promotion overseas,” he said. But now tourism was becoming an important development industry, he said. The Tourist and Publicity Department, in particular its Information Services Division, has come under scrutiny, and experienced big changes several times in the last decade.