TOURIST TRAFFIC

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6442, 26 January 1924, Page 1

TOURIST TRAFFIC

NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT , “After taking a trip to the West Coast, and seeing what an enormous asset the Dominion has got in its scenic reserves and tourist resorts,” stated Mr John Myers, in the course of an interview with a Wellington Times reporter recently, “I cannot help thinking it would be a good thing if those connected With the ..Tourist Department were fo/Visit the different places in New Zealand, so that when a tourist required 'any information in regard to any of them the officers of the Department could n, -t hr.nd. This cannot be ' x it :V; ' / , ..... J aht^pf; opinion' in—'f.. hind the /goods; but, ; .Unfortunately,' we haven’t the salesmen. ;v “During this year we expect from 16,000 to 20,000 people to leave the Dominion to visit the Empire Exhibition;., and, reckoning,.the average expenditure at £soo' nor head, a small sum, it means that ; frGilo jive to ten millions of pounds are going out of this country. We wa'fi^..t'L.s;ee J 7some' of it'come back, and 1 the ; ohly way 10 . assure that is to' let all the people from all over the world'who visit the Exhibition know what 'New.; Zealand Can show them.”' . . ’* ■' ■ ■