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Speaker 1: To christ Church. I've got more good news from christ

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Speaker 1: Church Electric Avenue. Remember that in February Music Festival ten

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Speaker 1: and a half million dollars in visitors spend, so that

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Speaker 1: would be a record, a fifty one year record in fact,

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Speaker 1: because that would make it the biggest spend since the

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four Commonwealth Games. Seventy five thousand people walk

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Speaker 1: through the gates at Hagley Park, sixty three thousand visitor

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Speaker 1: night's ninety eight percent of the city's accommodation book. That's

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Speaker 1: not bad. A christ Church, New Zealand or christ Church

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Speaker 1: Ends it's general manager for Destination and Attraction, Lauren Aberhartz

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Speaker 1: with us. Lauren, a very good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You morning mate.

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Speaker 1: What's the magic Because in Australia music festivals are dogs,

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Speaker 1: they've gone no one goes anymore because they like to

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Speaker 1: go to a singular event. What's the magic of Electric I.

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Speaker 2: Think it's a max of getting really good content, but

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Speaker 2: also the location. The fact that we've got an inner

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Speaker 2: city urban environment works a part where you can go

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Speaker 2: and have a festival experience that stay in nice. Accommodation

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Speaker 2: is what people are paying.

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Speaker 1: For and has this got growth left in it or

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Speaker 1: is this as big as it gets? Do you think

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Speaker 1: we're looking.

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Speaker 2: At what options are for gross it's certainly had the

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Speaker 2: city bursting at the setting. So we're currently undertaking some

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Speaker 2: accommodation research to see, you know, whether or not we

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Speaker 2: can grow and certainly planning a heads for one New

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Speaker 2: Zealand stadium opening to make sure that the city's got

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Speaker 2: the capacity to cope.

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Speaker 1: Because ninety eight percent's full for all essential purposes.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it Yes, and not just commercial accommodation. We're sort

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Speaker 2: of talking about people's backyards with vans and you know,

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Speaker 2: all sorts of billeting going on.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it exciting? The stadium and yours were your sense

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Speaker 1: of what it's going to do as far assunderstanding and

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Speaker 1: people coming to town to concern.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're We're incredibly exciting. We're looking at about fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollars of economic impact peranum from the stadium. I

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Speaker 2: think that's really conservative. The visitors spend will be quite significant,

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Speaker 2: especially in twenty twenty six. We've got a huge program

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Speaker 2: of events that we're working with the news or to takey

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Speaker 2: on and were going to get that place pumping Jesus.

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Speaker 1: It feels very exciting. Every time I talk to someone

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Speaker 1: in Christchurch, you get excited about Lauren. Appreciate Lauren Aberhart,

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Speaker 1: who's the gem of destination attraction for christ ten and

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Speaker 1: a half million dollars for more from The Mic Asking Breakfast,

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