INFORMATION BUREAUX

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23340, 8 May 1939, Page 8

INFORMATION BUREAUX

SERVICE FOR TOURISTS ESTABLISHMENT URGED I fBY TELEGItAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] , BLENHEIM, Saturday The need for facilities for providing information to tourists visiting the centres was discussed by the executive of the South Island Travel Association. Members considered there was vride scope in this direction, and decided to ?o more fullv into the question at a ater date with a view to seeing what action can be taken. In a report, the association s director, Mr,, J. J. W. Pollard, said "hat undoubtedly the establishment of information bureaux in the main centres was necessary. At present there were a number of bodies which, on reqi cst, supplied certain specialised information, but visitors experienced difficulty in finding these places and in obtaining information concerning places they ■wished to see and making contact with people with whom they had interests in comiiion. H ( » claimed that this was a civic service which should be provided, but it could be established only when municipalities recognised to _ a greater extent the value of the tourist trade to the regions they governed. "The Dominion's tourist trade is now worth over £1.250.000 per annum," he said. The value could be doubled or trebled' bv energetic co-operation. Mr. Pollard added that in South Africa, for instance, a bureau of information was to be found in every large town.