AMERICAN TOURISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 20

AMERICAN TOURISTS

POSSIBILITIES OF TRAFFIC NEW ZEALAND’S ATTRACTIONS > (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 22. Mr Arthur Tuckermann, an American journalist who arrived by the Mariposa to write articles on New Zealand for loading American magazines, said that, owing to the unsatisfactory state of foreign exchanges in Europe, more and more Americans were travelling westward instead of to Europe. If properly handled, the American tourist trade could become one of the Dominion’s most profitable industries. While not wishing to deprecate the Government’s efforts to make New Zealand known in America, lie mentioned that when he went to the largest New York booksellers they, after much investigation, could produce only one book dealing with New Zealand, and it was written by two American women. When the Americans knew what New Zealand had to offer there would bo a tourist boom.