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Speaker 1: Very usual developments in Italy. A direct election of the

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Speaker 1: Italian Prime Minister has been ticked off by the Senate,

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Speaker 1: so change is coming. Joe mckennaon on that shortly meantime

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Speaker 1: back home, country's largest business events trade show. It's underway.

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Speaker 1: It's called Meetings. It connects overseas investors with domestic industries,

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Speaker 1: and by god, do we need some of that going

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Speaker 1: on at the moment. The boss of Business Events Industry,

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Speaker 1: Lisa Hopkins, is with us on all of this. Lisa, Morning,

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Speaker 1: good morning, night. So it's been held in, wrote a Ruer,

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Speaker 1: give me your vibal sense of wrote to Rua's ability

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Speaker 1: to host and bounce back and provide a good vibe

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Speaker 1: given all that's gone on with emergency housing and stuff

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess what I can do is I can

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Speaker 2: tell you. I can give you some direct quotes from

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Speaker 2: some of our international visitors to say that they have

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Speaker 2: been blown away by the warmth and hospitality of everything

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Speaker 2: that they've seen down here. In is an underestimation or

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Speaker 2: an understatement of what's been going on. There is absolutely

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Speaker 2: you know, this is a city that's really come together.

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Speaker 2: This is a city that really understands how to take

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Speaker 2: care of visitors and they have done an exceptional job.

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Speaker 2: It's been it's been outstanding. It's just an exceptional.

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Speaker 1: Event, fantastic. Who are these people, what sort of money

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Speaker 1: do they have and what are they looking for?

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Speaker 2: So a lot of these people are either they're what

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Speaker 2: we call intermediaries. They are working on behalf of a

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Speaker 2: number of different customers from across a broad spectrum of

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Speaker 2: different organizations who are either looking to hold their association

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Speaker 2: conference here in New Zealand or bring their customers to

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Speaker 2: New Zealand to hold an incentive or another big conference.

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Speaker 2: And look, you know, the value of this industry globally

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Speaker 2: goes into the trillions of dollars. It's a huge, huge industry.

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Speaker 2: And you know, in New Zealand, with all of its assets,

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Speaker 2: including the new convention centers, we stand at a really

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Speaker 2: strong position to do very well.

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Speaker 1: Good good good Luckson's been out there, you know, talking

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Speaker 1: about being open for business. These people understand we are

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Speaker 1: open for business.

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Speaker 2: Here one one hundred percent. And they aren't just coming

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Speaker 2: into Rotorola. They're also while they're down here, they're also

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Speaker 2: going into different parts of the country. So you know,

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Speaker 2: opened well into christ Church, over into Queenstown as well.

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Speaker 2: They're getting a really really strong sense of what New

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Speaker 2: Zealand has to offer.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic Lisa good Insight. Thank you for that. Lisa Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: Business Events Industry out here, I CEO with us This Morning.

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