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Speaker 1: Christ Church, speaking of events, has been looking into the

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Speaker 1: possibility of hosting the Commonwealth Games. Turns out doesn't look

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Speaker 1: like they're going to be able to do it. Christchurch,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand's General manager of Destination and Attraction, Lauren Aberhart,

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Speaker 1: is with U Lauren, very good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You morning Matte.

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Speaker 1: While we're on this tourism think you had a view

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. Is that a problem or not? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Look, we don't want to dispel as it is, but

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Speaker 2: traveling long haul is obviously a high cost anyway, and

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Speaker 2: I think getting some funding out of those visitors is

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Speaker 2: a good thing. And we just want to know what

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Speaker 2: that funding will be spent on. And that's what we're

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Speaker 2: not clear on some central.

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Speaker 1: Government right this reportant the Commonwealth Games. Basically it says

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Speaker 1: could be done, but probably more nationally than locally. Is

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Speaker 1: that fair? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: And so what's wrong with christ Church slash the region?

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Speaker 1: Is it facilities? Is it hotels?

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Speaker 2: What is it? I think there's a little bit of

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Speaker 2: constraints from accommodation and transport, but also it is quite

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Speaker 2: cost prohibitive. Would need to be investing in significant additional

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Speaker 2: sporting infrastructure that we don't necessarily need long term and

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Speaker 2: so a national bid makes a lot more sense. The

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Speaker 2: legacy artcomes can be spread across the country. We're quite

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Speaker 2: a small country and the scheme of things, so it's

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Speaker 2: just better to spread that benefit and that cost across

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Speaker 2: New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Would you have before the report have said that in

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Speaker 1: your gut when the mayor got all excited, that was.

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Speaker 2: Our likely feeling, But we had a fantastic conversation where

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Speaker 2: we said, well, let's look at it and then see

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Speaker 2: what else we might be able to do with a

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Speaker 2: similar size and scale that is perhaps more fit for

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Speaker 2: purpose for the city. So it was a great opportunity

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Speaker 2: to do that.

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the themes. Do the smallert stuff,

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Speaker 1: and in doing the smaller stuff you build a foundation

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Speaker 1: over time for the biggert stuff. Is that what we're

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Speaker 1: learning here?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? So we're looking to build up a pathway of

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Speaker 2: international and national sporting events that will eventually put us

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Speaker 2: on the world stage and be able to host things

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Speaker 2: like the Commonwealth Games as we become more mature and

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Speaker 2: build both our population and our infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: And does it matter because the con Games, i'd tell

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Speaker 1: you is sort of dying a death at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Does it matter to a city where whe it's got

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Speaker 1: a sort of a buzz or a fizz to it,

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Speaker 1: or is it just the fact if you can get

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Speaker 1: an event with people, officials and athletes, that's your calling

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Speaker 1: card as opposed to whether anyone's interested outside of that. No.

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Speaker 2: I think there's multiple benefits that include more participation in sport, broadcast,

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Speaker 2: showcasing your destination and things like becom Wealth Games do

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Speaker 2: do that. What we want to do though, is make

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Speaker 2: sure that anything that we're investing in is long term

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Speaker 2: and sustainable, and that was really where we landed with

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Speaker 2: the Commwalth Games. We're reviewing the sustainability of their delivery

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Speaker 2: model at the moment, and so it's not really a

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Speaker 2: good time for us to be considering an old model

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Speaker 2: of the common Wealth Games when they may have a

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Speaker 2: completely new model in the future.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Lauren, appreciate the insight. Lauren Alberhart, general manager of

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Speaker 1: Destination and Attraction for christ to New Zealand.

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