Day in Auckland more expensive

Press, 22 September 1987, Page 27

Day in Auckland more expensive

NZPA-AAP London The strengthened New Zealand dollar has made Auckland the thirty-seventh most expensive stopping place in the world for travelling executives, according to a “Business Traveller” magazine survey. The magazine said that a day in Auckland staying and eating in a firstclass hotel and with “a small amount of entertaining,” cost the visiting executive around SUSI7I ($277.02).

This compared with $249 in Singapore, $254 in Istanbul, $324 in Rome and $356.40 in London. The cost in Paris was $396.90, $468.18 in New York and — most expensive of all — $529.74 a day in Tokyo. The survey of 75 world cities found Tokyo, New York, Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt,

Zurich, Vienna, Chicago and London were rated the 12 most expensive cities, while Sydney was rated fortyfifth, at $251 a day. Colombo, in Sri Lanka, at $140.94 plunged to seventy-fourth because of hotel price cuts forced by the Tamil guerrilla scare. Tunis was the cheapest big city at $124.74 a day. Sydney’s costs were 70 per cent of London’s, 53.6 per cent of New York’s, and 47 per cent of those in Tokyo. In a separate survey, the Association of British Travel Agents voted Qantas third-best airline in the world, after British Airways and Singapore Airlines. But, while the A.B.T.A. rated Swissair seventh in its league, tickets bought by travellers placed Swissair first. Next came Lufthansa, KLM and Singapore Airlines.