Trans-Tasman tourism
Sir, — A spokesman for the Australian Minister for Tourism can “give no explanation” for the 38 per cent increase in visitors to Australia from New Zealand this year (December 23). The explanation is simple. During the periods compared — the first five months of 1986, compared with the same months of 1985 — the New Zealand dollar was worth 19 per cent more in terms of the Australian dollar than 12 months earlier. Australian prices rose 9 per cent in the same period approximately (March compared with March), so the New Zealand visitor got 10 per cent more for his tourist dollar than in 1985. Over the same period the New Zealand consumer price index rose 13 per cent. Surprise, surprise: Mount
Hutt and other tourist ventures are struggling. The moral: costs (starting with wages) have to be contained if tourism in New Zealand is to prosper. — Yours, etc.,
N. L. MACBETH. December 23, 1986.
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