TOURIST TRAFFIC
Auckland Bookings Easily a Record CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR Dominion Special Service. Auckland, November 16. Tourist bookings made by the Auckland office of the Tourist Department for the Christmas and New Year season are easily a record, well eclipsing last year’s figures, which were an advance ou any recorded previously. This applies both to advance bookings by overseas visitors and to local business. The difficulty now is to get hotel accommodation in Auckland for overseas visitors, some hotels lining fully booked tor the Christmas period and from January 9to 23. The hotel accommodation difficulty is intensified in January because of several conferences which will be held in Auckland. The Australian and New Zealand surgeons’ conference is from January 18 to 23 and the Australian and New Zealand science congress from January 12 to 18. There is also a chemists’ conference in January.
There has been a substantial increase in bookings by Australian visitors, the tourist business from Australia having developed a great deal in the past two or three years. American and English visitors are also to come to New Zealand in good numbers. There is naturally heavy booking by overseas visitors for such resorts as Rotorua and the Waitomo Caves and also for such places in the South Island as Queenstown and other lake districts. If the American shipping strike continues the tourist traffic will be materially affected, however. Many intending American visitors booked their tours three months ahead, and if their steamer passages are cancelled a great deal of Inconvenience will be caused to hotels.
“Quite a number of inquiries are now coming to hand from India by intending visitors. The department has agents in India, but a good portion of the inquiry is the result of accounts from friends, a typical instance being a recommendation by some persons who went to Australia bn a P. and O. cruise and continued their journey to New Zealand, with the result that they became enthusiastic about the Dominion. ■
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 8
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