TOURIST TRAFFIC
AN AMERICAN OPINION 5 . [irr telegraph—own correspondent] DTTNEDIN, Monday l lf you want American tourists ,to visit this connt,ry. you will hare, to make it cheaper for them," stated an. American traveller, who has been in Dunedin for the past few days. "A Pacific airline may attract a few really wealthy people!, but they will complain "of the lack of night life._ The people yo 1 should encourage are professional num, business 4 people and the like, who ar s not used to really lavish living and yet have laYge enough incomes to bo able to alford a comparativelyvmodest trip abroad." The visitor was surprised to discover tli 5 absence of "tourist camps" i:a New Zealand. In the United States these camps 3 he said, consisted of picturesque-ly-situated little colonies of log cabins dotted all over the country. Instead of heving to go to the trouble of unpackin; tents" and pitching them, the American tourist could pull into a camp ai d hire a cabin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 8
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