TOURIST TRAFFIC

Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 10

TOURIST TRAFFIC

POST-WAR RESUMPTION (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Get. 17. Commenting on the prospects for the resumption of the tourist traffic, Mr R. J. Anwyl, Thomas Cook and Sons’ manager for Australia and New Zealand, said to-day that the main requisite was an early return to normal shipping conditions’. Mr Anwyl has arrived in Auckland from Australia, and will visit Wellington and Christchurch in connection with the firm’s further plans. Sea travel would not become normal, he said, until ships had been pon- ’ verted from their war-time uses and more ships had been built. In Europe, there was a very strong movement to simplify the passport system between countries, and he considered that it would be an excellent thing if that freedom of travel were extended generally. A further impetus to the tourist trade would result from the lifting of the restrictions on the transfer of money; All these things would come about as world conditions improved. At the moment his firm was preparing reports on all forms of travel—hotels and other facilities—in response to requests from branches in Europe, and America. “ There is a considerably increased interest both in travel to and residence in New Zealand and Australia,” Mr Anwyl added, “ particularly from people in India. They can only bo regarded as preliminary inquiries, because people'cannot come yet, but the interest is there.”