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Speaker 1: Good news story from our tourism see to Toby Stewart

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Speaker 1: Michelin star chef who's back in the country opening up

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Speaker 1: his own multimillion dollar luxury slow stay retreat. This isn't

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Speaker 1: the able Tasman. It's all about switching off tech and

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Speaker 1: reconnecting over conversation and dinner, that sort of thing. This

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Speaker 1: taps into the global wellness tourism market, which is projected

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Speaker 1: by the Way to hit over two trillion dollars by

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty. Anyway, Toby's well this morning.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Hi, good morning Mike. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: having me on.

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Speaker 1: Not at all how big a punters this do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: Well? For me, it's everything, you know, we've put everything

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Speaker 2: on the line, remort to the house, you know we are.

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Speaker 2: We're very confident that we've got a great product and

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Speaker 2: we're really looking forward to kind of welcoming our guests

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Speaker 2: to come and have a slice of the Tasmas sun

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Speaker 2: and relax, recopery, recharge, maybe disconnect from the electronic devices

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Speaker 2: for a while and just embrace maybe a spit of nature.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's.

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Speaker 1: Top end and you're charging big money. Is it local

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Speaker 1: or international? Do you think.

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Speaker 2: We'd like it to be for everybody. I think it's

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Speaker 2: top end with regards to the position of the property

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Speaker 2: and the detail and level of service that we're bringing

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Speaker 2: into it. But at the same time, we feel that

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Speaker 2: we've positioned its we feel that it is accessible. It

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Speaker 2: does provide a little bit of a value for money

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Speaker 2: we've in our pricing and there's a lot of added extras.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot that's included in that, being a breakfast,

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Speaker 2: yoga classes, wellness facilities. You can embrace wellness or you

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Speaker 2: can embrace a little bit of indulgence. So it's really

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Speaker 2: up to the guest of what they want to get

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Speaker 2: out of the state.

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Speaker 1: But have you got a sauna?

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Speaker 2: We do have a sauna. Yes, yeah, we've got a sauna,

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Speaker 2: a hot tub, we've got massage room, we've got beautiful

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Speaker 2: refreshing pool. Reviews on to the able Tasmin and then

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Speaker 2: a nice place where you can relax on the deck

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Speaker 2: and overlook Tasmin Bay, you know, where you read a

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Speaker 2: book or just enjoy some of the visits from the

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Speaker 2: birds and the nature we have on the property.

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Speaker 1: What's your sense of it? Are you doing this because

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Speaker 1: it's your dream and you would have done it any

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Speaker 1: way at any time, or are you seeing something in

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Speaker 1: the tourism industry you think you have timed this about right.

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's it's actually more of just the

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Speaker 2: kind of the stars aligning. I don't really want you know, fate,

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Speaker 2: but it's an accumulation of my lifetime work. I've been

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Speaker 2: in the industry for coming three decades, very much at

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Speaker 2: the top level, and we've always enjoyed traveling and exploring

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Speaker 2: and the hospitality scene. You enjoyed discovering new dishes, in

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Speaker 2: discovering new cuisines, new ingredients, and yeah, I think this

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Speaker 2: is a distillation of myself and my wife's kind of

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Speaker 2: dream and we just we really enjoy hosting people, really

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Speaker 2: into meeting people, and we kind of realized that there

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Speaker 2: was a little kind of feeling of going back to

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Speaker 2: maybe more sort of analog stay, more kind of embracing

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Speaker 2: a bit of wellness, and so we kind of the

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Speaker 2: timing's kind of come together quite nicely. But it's something

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Speaker 2: more of a passion project for ourselves that it's just

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Speaker 2: come together at this time, and we would have done

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Speaker 2: it anyway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely fantastic. All I can do is wish you

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Speaker 1: well with a Toby Stewart Michelin style restaurant chef who's

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Speaker 1: opening up in the able Tasma's really a very good article.

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Speaker 1: I don't have time for now. I'll come back to

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Speaker 1: it later. That you should read over the weekend if

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Speaker 1: you're interested in this sort of thing. There's another company

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Speaker 1: in using called Oh Studio. Tim Bateman, who you may

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Speaker 1: remember is a sports guy Maury all Black. He isn't

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Speaker 1: a Saunas and that sort of stuff. Open a branch

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Speaker 1: in christ which he's expanding, and that wellness industry generally

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Speaker 1: talk about boom that's up to ten trillion dollars are globally.

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