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Speaker 1: Australia may have taken the wind out of the Black

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Speaker 1: Foils sales, but certainly not the fans. More than twenty

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Speaker 1: five thousand people attended the inaugural Auckland League of Sale

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Speaker 1: GP and it's excluding those that are in the pubs,

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Speaker 1: or who are out on the water, or if you

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Speaker 1: were like me, who were just wandering around these CEO

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Speaker 1: Sir Russell Kurtz's signaled interest in a longer term deal

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Speaker 1: maybe five years, but beyond next year, a return to

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Speaker 1: Auckland remains a bit of a mystery. Nick Hill is

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Speaker 1: the Tataki Auckland Unlimited CEO. It's the council controlled organization

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Speaker 1: that does this stuff. He's with us this morning, Nick,

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Speaker 1: Good morning morning, Ryan. Hey, great event. You must be

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Speaker 1: pretty stoked.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely thrilled. It delivered on every aspect and more so

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Speaker 2: it was a huge success.

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Speaker 1: What does this do for Auckland.

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Speaker 2: Very narrowly, it drives economically. If it's five million GDP

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Speaker 2: we estimated, I wouldn't be surprised if it's more than that.

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Speaker 2: It helps to attract visitors, It helps to tell the

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Speaker 2: story around who we are as a city and orkan

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Speaker 2: to to s get to enjoy the benefits of being

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Speaker 2: out and enjoying events and what it does to the city.

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Speaker 1: The five million number you're talking about, where did the

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Speaker 1: number come from? Because MB had some problems trying to

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Speaker 1: calculate the net benefit of hosting events like this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: are these numbers actually reliable?

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Speaker 2: It's look, there's there's a lot of challenges with how

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Speaker 2: you measure the value. I personally would say that our

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Speaker 2: number is conservatives the numbers using crisis we're a lot higher,

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Speaker 2: but it's a measure of through data that's collected by

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Speaker 2: an agency, Fresh and Flow, who calculate this for us.

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Speaker 2: So the number itself is kind of reliable, but it

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Speaker 2: doesn't retell the full story, and that's that's the challenge.

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Speaker 2: So we would argue the benefits are actually greater than that,

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Speaker 2: but we do take a conservative you of the numbers

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Speaker 2: that are provided, just simply because we of the credibility

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Speaker 2: of doing these things with decision makers.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys in talks to do a five year deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I spoke to Russell about it on Friday. He

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Speaker 2: raised with me his arguments are very sound. He's saying,

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Speaker 2: you do this regularly, have becomes something that people put

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Speaker 2: in their calendar, becomes associated with the city and everything

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Speaker 2: kind of works in and around it, and that is

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Speaker 2: certainly very appealing, very appealing to Auckland. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: part of our DNA.

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Speaker 1: What does it cost us?

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Speaker 2: So we paid a fee of a million for this event.

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Speaker 2: I think that that's probably a very reasonable number. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I've got no idea what we would be

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Speaker 2: talking about in the future. Our issue, there's a few issues,

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Speaker 2: but the prime issues around the future funding path for events.

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Speaker 2: It's an issue that people understand that since COVID, we're

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Speaker 2: really struggling to fund events in Auckland, and you know,

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Speaker 2: it's an area that needs to be resolved.

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Speaker 1: And potentially five million dollars if we're looking at a

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Speaker 1: five million dere we could be looking at five million

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Speaker 1: dollars at a time when Wayne Brown's obviously taking a

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Speaker 1: bit of a wrecking ball to you guys, so.

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Speaker 2: Now he will look. No, Wayne's being very supportive. His issue.

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Speaker 2: His issue is primarily how you raise the funding and

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Speaker 2: he runs a wizard of levy.

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Speaker 1: All right, Nick, thank you very much for that. Plenty

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Speaker 1: of water to go under the bridge, as they say,

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Speaker 1: Nick Hill, tantaky Auckland Unlimited CEO. For more from the

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