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Speaker 1: New tourism datais I'm sure you well aware is out

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Speaker 1: green shirts? Do we see green shirts?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: Kind of. We're only at eighty eight percent of where

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Speaker 1: we once were. But the Australians love is one point

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Speaker 1: four eight million arrivals, which is up twelve percent, the

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Speaker 1: US up at three hundred and eighty one thousand, Chinas

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Speaker 1: a bit flat, Q Town and christ Duty. You go

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Speaker 1: to still Louise upstance Tourism Minister and is with us morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: What's your level of satisfaction as you sit and talk

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Speaker 1: to us this Friday morning.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm really comfortable with where the numbers are at.

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Speaker 2: It's showing that the work that we're putting in is

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Speaker 2: delivering some results. But we've still got more work to

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Speaker 2: go to attract even more international visitors over the ditch.

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Speaker 1: The Australian thing. Is that about the dollar or the

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Speaker 1: campaigns or both?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's both. We've also seen an increase in trans

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Speaker 2: Tasman flights, but Everyone Must Go campaign has definitely delivered

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Speaker 2: an extra push. So that's not going to be one

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Speaker 2: individual thing that gets us results. We've got to have

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Speaker 2: a solid plan and just keep rolling out ideas to

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Speaker 2: attract them over and to just make sure that New

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Speaker 2: Zealand is top of mind for the countries that normally

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Speaker 2: choose US. So Australia the US China is a big

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Speaker 2: focus at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, how hard are we working

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Speaker 1: on China? And is that a lost cause? From all

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Speaker 1: I'm reading, they seem yes, they're traveling a lot now domestically,

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Speaker 1: but they are going off the border into other parts

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Speaker 1: of Asia. Are we wasting our time there?

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Speaker 2: No, China's going to continue to be a really important

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Speaker 2: market for US. I took the first ever tourism trade

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Speaker 2: delegation up to China in September, so some of that

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Speaker 2: will pay off next year. But we do need to

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Speaker 2: keep focusing on the markets that have traditionally come here

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Speaker 2: as well as emerging markets like in there. But I

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Speaker 2: think we're in a really positive space. We've got more

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Speaker 2: work to do and that's why there will be more

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Speaker 2: announcements to come, and of course the Michelin Guide last

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Speaker 2: week will attract a different type of visitor. Again, as

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Speaker 2: I said, it's a combination of initiatives that we will

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Speaker 2: make to drive so that the piece.

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Speaker 1: In the Sydney Morning here all about they were they

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Speaker 1: should be rapable. It was a piece saying basically the

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Speaker 1: Australians missed the opportunity. They could have paid the bill.

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Speaker 1: They didn't want to do it. We did and we

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Speaker 1: sucked in good.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, and look anything that anything that makes New

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Speaker 2: Zealand stand out. So firstly to attack attract Australian foodies

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Speaker 2: to come over here is great. But also if people

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Speaker 2: are trying to decide between Australia and New Zealand, this

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Speaker 2: is one thing that'll put New Zealand above Australia, which

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Speaker 2: is great. And I had it maybe tongue in cheek

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Speaker 2: suggested to me earlier this morning that actually it might

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Speaker 2: reverse the brain drain from the hospitality sector to get

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Speaker 2: Australian chefs over to New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Nic stuff, have a good weekend. Two Louis Upston tour

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Speaker 1: as a minister. Eighty seven cents though, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you're sitting there with your eighty seven Australian cents, you

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Speaker 1: get a New Zealand dollar. It's not bad. For more

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