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Speaker 1: So tourism getting bigger and better and brighter. Spending has

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Speaker 1: had twelve point one billion in the year to June,

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Speaker 1: which is up four point three percent. International arrivals are

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Speaker 1: up five percent to three point three eight million of them.

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Speaker 1: Rene de Monts is the Tourism New Zealand boss. He's

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Speaker 1: back with this random morning morning Mike. Up is good,

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Speaker 1: but it's still a slow grind. Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look up as good as you say. You know,

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Speaker 2: twelve point one billion, so that's up four percent, so

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Speaker 2: you know, five hundred million more on the year before.

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Speaker 2: So that's good news. But you're right, it certainly continues

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Speaker 2: to be competitive. I'm an eternal optimist, Mike, So I

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Speaker 2: continue to look at going. I think there's plenty of

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Speaker 2: opportunities still ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: Well, I hope so, because in justin for inflation, we're

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Speaker 1: still spending wise at eighty six percent, so we're sort

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Speaker 1: of going nowhere fast. When do you reckon one hundred

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Speaker 1: Is you got any idea?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're targeting to get back to one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: of visitor arrivals by the end of next year. That's

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Speaker 2: that's quite a big that's quite a big task. But

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Speaker 2: there's certainly a big focus from US, you know, really

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Speaker 2: enticing visitors, having an urgency to them to get them

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Speaker 2: to make that booking for New Zealand as soon as possible,

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Speaker 2: and we're seeing some really good results out of that.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it is a competitive world and we're

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Speaker 2: seeing you know, we've seen lots of markets really compete

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Speaker 2: for international visitors.

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Speaker 1: I was reading the other day, I had it wrong.

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Speaker 1: I thought capacity was back. Apparently capacity isn't back. Is

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Speaker 1: it coming back? How quickly is it coming back? And

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Speaker 1: when will it be back to normal? If ever?

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Speaker 2: Is that the airline capacity might come out? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Look it's around about ninety four percent probably the latest numbers,

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Speaker 2: so is a bit slower. You know, that's both there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of kind of challenges with airlines, engine problems

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Speaker 2: that you've no doubt heard about, but certainly we've been

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Speaker 2: actively also working with the airports to entice airlines back

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Speaker 2: to New Zealand. The outlook I think for the summer

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Speaker 2: is probably about ninety five ninety six percent, So it

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Speaker 2: is building, but fair to say building a little bit

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Speaker 2: slower than we would have hoped.

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Speaker 1: Okay, they talked to the North Island people yesterday or

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Speaker 1: across in Australia at the moment, New Zealanding, how much

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Speaker 1: of the individuals are out there selling or pitching for

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Speaker 1: Australia or the North Islanders pitching versus the New Zealand Inc.

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Speaker 1: One stop shop We're open for business type campaign.

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Speaker 2: Well, the good thing is there's a lot of collaboration

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Speaker 2: in the tourism sector. So I know, the North Island

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Speaker 2: road shows in Australia at the moment, we really welcome

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Speaker 2: that because that's a combined effort. You know, we work

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Speaker 2: together in Australia and a lot of a lot of activities,

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Speaker 2: so it's really you know, the sum of the parts

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Speaker 2: make up the whole. But there's lots of different parts

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Speaker 2: of the sector promoting New Zealand. But you know Australia

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Speaker 2: is a touch on. But Australia has actually been performing really,

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Speaker 2: really well. We've seen strong double digit growth inbound over

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Speaker 2: the last sent me over this year and the outlook

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Speaker 2: for the kind of quarter ahead is of similar trends.

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Speaker 2: So that's really positive to see.

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Speaker 1: Good to hear, Rene, good to catch up. Renaud de

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Speaker 1: Montsho's the CEO of Tourism New Zealand. Jesus its slow isn't.

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