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Speaker 1: So as tourism finally back to where it belongs, knocking

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Speaker 1: off dairy or knocking on dairy's door as the number

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Speaker 1: one foreign income earner. We've got. The Tourism Satellite Account

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Speaker 1: report puts total expenditure at over forty six billion for

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Speaker 1: the year to March. That's twenty five that's up three

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Speaker 1: point three percent. Overseas visitors spend is up one point

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Speaker 1: two billion, seven percent lift, so they're spending eighteen point

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Speaker 1: one billion, eleven percent of US three hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: seven thousand people now working tourism, which is up two

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Speaker 1: point eight percent. This is all good. Rebecca Ingram is

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Speaker 1: the Tourism Industry out hero CEO and as well as Rebecca,

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Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, Champagne time or still more to do.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of billions, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of billions.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of billions. Yeah. Look, the Tourism's Satellite

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Speaker 2: Account which came out East today, does give us a

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Speaker 2: really good snapshot for how the industry is performing. And

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Speaker 2: as you just noticed, it's more money and more jobs.

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Speaker 2: And I always like seeing the numbers going out.

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Speaker 1: The capacity and the ability to lift because capacity airline

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Speaker 1: wise is not back as more with us came from

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Speaker 1: and to what extent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's why it's important to know what period

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Speaker 2: this is covering. So it takes us through to March

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, So basically cast your mind back to

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Speaker 2: sort of this time last year, and that's when this

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Speaker 2: information finished. So there's actually been an enormous amount of

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Speaker 2: effort put in since then. So this is good. What

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Speaker 2: I'm anticipating is that the data that we get next

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Speaker 2: year will be even better because this summer we've seen

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Speaker 2: increased airline capacity, we have seen changes to our visa

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Speaker 2: settings for China, which we spoke about together a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, which has had a real difference. And

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Speaker 2: also we've seen quite considerable activity to stimulate demand. So

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Speaker 2: come and have an event here. We've got an amazing

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Speaker 2: new convention center, we've got this beautiful new stadium about

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Speaker 2: to open. A christ job. So my expectation is that

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Speaker 2: next year's Tourism Sacileite account will be even better.

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Speaker 1: Weird Grant website from Tourism Holdings. He said, this year,

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Speaker 1: at some point you will beat or knock off dairy.

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Speaker 1: Would that be your gut?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I do like Grant's predictions. I think we've put

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Speaker 2: a little bit still to go. So together we are

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Speaker 2: contributing thirty eight point six ferteen of total exports. You know,

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Speaker 2: our mates and dairy and tourism, we are doing an

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Speaker 2: amazing job at the moment for our economy. I think

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Speaker 2: we've got a couple of cycle theft before we lap them.

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Speaker 2: But granted, I maybe we should be taking a best

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Speaker 2: on that one.

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Speaker 1: I'd nice to talk to you, Rebecca, appreciate it. Rebecca Ingram,

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Speaker 1: who's tourism industry? Are he row CEO? And that doesn't

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Speaker 1: take into account this morning's dairy numbers If you missed that,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just ridiculous. What's happening in dairy at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Five from five from the auctions and not

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Speaker 1: just five from five this year, big, big lifts and

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Speaker 1: what's fascinating about it? If you follow the dairy story.

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Speaker 1: Not to get off tourism for a moment, but if

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Speaker 1: you followed the dairy story, last year's dip at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year is being widely recognized within the

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Speaker 1: industry as a mistake. They panicked, they thought things were

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Speaker 1: going south. They started to sell off the whole thing's

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Speaker 1: being reversed, so that's encouraging. Ten minutes past seven, so

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