Tourism ‘will not degrade N.Z. culture’
From
GEOFF MEIN
in Timaru
New Zealand culture would not be degraded by the expected boom in tourism. said the Minister of Tourism. Mr Moore, yesterday.
Speaking in Timaru as part of the Labour Party's by-election campaign. Mr Moore predicted that tourism would become the premier industry in the South Island by the turn of the century.
The industry had to be developed rapidly because tourists were already being turned away. For every Japanese visitor arriving in New Zealand there was another who could not get on a flight, he said. Tourism growth in Queenstown was causing a critical housing shortage. Mr Moore said there was a desperate need to build
homes and to develop facilities so that communities in tourism meccas were not dominated by short-term visitors. The Labour Government, he said, had done more for tourism in six months than the National Government in six years. The tourism vote had been increased 187 per cent.
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Press, 31 May 1985, Page 3
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