Air route to attract skiers?
By
LES BLOXHAM,
travel editor
Air New Zealand is hoping its planned new non-stop service from Perth to Christchurch next year will attract West Australian skiers to the snow slopes of the South Island. The airline’s Tasman route manager, Mr Albert Lovell, said yesterday that the weekly Boeing 767 flights, which will begin on March 26, would be timely for the ski season.
For the 12 months ending last July, nearly 22,000 West Australians visited New Zealand, an increase of 12 per cent. This went very much against the over-all Australian trend which has been falling steadily for almost two years. (Latest available statistics from the Tourist and Publicity Department show that for the 12 months ended October 31, the total number of Australian visitors fell 6.2 per cent — from 289,000 to 271,577. By far the biggest decline was in the vital holiday category — down 25.5 per cent, from 122,000 to 91,164.)
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