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Speaker 1: Is it boring it? The old how good has christ

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Speaker 1: Church story? Got some new data this morning. Hotels had

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Speaker 1: a record ninety six point four percent occupancy last month.

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Speaker 1: National average is eighty eight novertel in christ Church best

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Speaker 1: month since they opened in twenty nineteen, so they're booming.

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Speaker 1: Ca flows the christ Church, New Zealand head of destination

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Speaker 1: and as with as cath Morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how much of that's local versus international?

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Speaker 2: I can tell you that it's predominance is actually domestic.

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Speaker 2: So we have we had some figures actually out of

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Speaker 2: January from January which showed that about eighty four point

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Speaker 2: nine million of it was domestic and forty six point

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Speaker 2: four percent of it was international. But that said, local

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Speaker 2: is only a tiny portion, So we're getting a lot

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Speaker 2: of as it is coming out of the rest of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and then also an increase from the rest

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Speaker 2: of world.

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Speaker 1: Are events driving it?

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Speaker 2: Events are part of the story for sure, and conferences

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Speaker 2: as well, so I guess that they can be bundled together.

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Speaker 2: But I think what's happening on top of that is

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Speaker 2: that christ Church is now being seen as a destination

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Speaker 2: and it's own right for a number of years for

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Speaker 2: a very good reason. It was a gateway to the

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Speaker 2: South Island. But now people are hearing that it is

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Speaker 2: a city that's been rebuilt and it's worth a visit

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Speaker 2: and it's worth a stay and people are staying longer.

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Speaker 1: Good At ninety six point four, are we at the

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Speaker 1: point where we need some more hotels?

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Speaker 2: It would be great to get some more hotels. Yes,

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Speaker 2: there's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: Is there a pipeline do you know?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, there is a pipeline, And there is going

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Speaker 2: to be a Sheriff and Hotel opening in christ Church

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Speaker 2: next year, which is the former Noah's Hotel which became

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Speaker 2: a Ridges Hotel. It's beautiful and it's looking magnificent right now.

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Speaker 2: So the work that's being done to develop that hotel

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Speaker 2: is extraordinary and we will have another absolutely spectacular hotel

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Speaker 2: in the city at five star level with two hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty rooms.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Kat, You have a good weekend as well,

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Speaker 1: cath Low. I'm in christ Juch. I'm doing a show

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Speaker 1: in christ Jutch in a couple of weeks. My tour

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Speaker 1: is hitting the road. I'm at the Limes. I'm at

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Speaker 1: the Limes Room A seven start hotel to open the well.

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Speaker 1: Now I've got my own accommodation sort. Because I don't

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Speaker 1: do hotels for security reasons. I go private. But it's

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Speaker 1: sold out. If you're interested in me being there, it's

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Speaker 1: sold out. You can't get a ticket for love nor money.

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