Tourism forecast reduced
PA Wellington The New Zealand Tourism Council is lowering its predictions for growth in foreign tourists visiting New Zealand. The council was originally predicting 15 per cent growth for the year to March, 1986. But the chairman, Mr John Milne, has pulled this back to a more conservative 9 per cent. “This growth would give 650,000 arrivals for the year, more than 50,000 ahead of 1984-85,” he said. The council is also falling back on its expectations for growth to the end of the decade when it was initially hoped some 900,000 overseas tourists a year would visit. Growth of 7 per cent to yield 830,000 tourists or 8 per cent—BBo,ooo tourists—was now being favoured, he said.
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Press, 12 August 1985, Page 5
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