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Speaker 1: Normally when it comes to thrills and tourism, of course

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Speaker 1: aj Hackett gets a lot of headlines. But what about Skyline.

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Speaker 1: They they're behind the luge ride. Of course you've been

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Speaker 1: done the Lousi in Queenstown, done the Lousion Road a well,

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Speaker 1: the Skyline Louge has just sur passed one hundred million rides.

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Speaker 1: They've got eight tracks around the world. They're about to

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Speaker 1: open another one in Swansea and Wales. Grant Hensman as

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Speaker 1: the director of Skyline Enterprises and as with us, Grant,

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Speaker 1: very good morning to you, Good morning one hundred million.

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Speaker 2: Who would have thought, eh, yeah, it's a big number,

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Speaker 2: isn't it?

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Speaker 1: I reckon? Do they all perform basically the same no

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Speaker 1: matter where you put them in the world. The same

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Speaker 1: sortish number of people come and pay the same sort

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Speaker 1: of amount of money a year.

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Speaker 2: It's relatively the same ticket price, which fates back to

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Speaker 2: what is affordable in the market. They don't all do

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Speaker 2: the same numbers, some types for far more numbers than others.

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Speaker 2: Two of the sites are seasonal, they're only operator in

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Speaker 2: the summer. In Canada.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got a couple in Kennedy. You got the

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Speaker 1: rest in Asia. What brought the whales thing on? Because

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Speaker 1: you're not in that part of the world.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're actively looking for expansion. We don't limit ourselves

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Speaker 2: to any particular jurisdictions. There are some jurisdictions that we're

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Speaker 2: probably more reluctant to go for for a raft of reasons.

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Speaker 1: What do you Is it simply a build that and

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Speaker 1: you will come thing, find a slope, put a track

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Speaker 1: and they will come? Or is it more complicated than that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, only if it was that simple, right, No. We

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Speaker 2: look for sites that already have other activities around them.

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Speaker 2: They need to have a number of criteria, which is

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Speaker 2: the right amount of elevation, the right population, the right

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Speaker 2: regulous ory environment, and the business still has to work

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Speaker 2: for the company.

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Speaker 1: Is it tourism or are locals? If I'm in Rotu,

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Speaker 1: do I lose on a regular basis because I live there? On?

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Speaker 2: Not? Here's a lot doue. One of the successes of

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Speaker 2: the lush is the red teak business. We have people

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Speaker 2: who have been coming back all the four forty years

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Speaker 2: we've been going the road to really parted as kids

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Speaker 2: and there they're bringing their grand kids.

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Speaker 1: Have the carts changed dramatically.

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Speaker 2: No, No, the principle is exactly the same. They have

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Speaker 2: got a lot more robust. I mean, in the early

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Speaker 2: days we had real troubles cut bodies, folding conveyors not

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Speaker 2: working mechanically. They failed. Maintenance was a killer, and our

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Speaker 2: engineer of the day took what was the early systems

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Speaker 2: and involved it into the robust product that you see today.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting, do you worry about the danger side of

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Speaker 1: the equation in a world of we worry about everything.

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Speaker 2: No. No. Over the years we've had a real focus

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Speaker 2: on improving the safety and reducing the access, which continues

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Speaker 2: to be one of their main focuses today or the

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Speaker 2: main focus and period. The incident rate's gone down in

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Speaker 2: the order of three to four thousand per se.

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Speaker 1: Jeez, good on you. Well, congratulations Grant. I gotta be honest,

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize they were as big as they are.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've been to rot and have been to Queenstown,

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Speaker 1: but they are in various parts of the world, as

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Speaker 1: I say, in Asia and up into they're in Singapore,

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Speaker 1: there's and Toza, so you've probably been on that one

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Speaker 1: up into Canada as well, and now opening in Whales

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Speaker 1: one hundred million rights started in the sixties nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: six by Grunt's dad Hilton. For more from the Mic

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