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Speaker 1: Now here's the good news to us. Are back and

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Speaker 1: they're here to spend. An international visitor survey shows there

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Speaker 1: was a five percent increase of visitors over the last

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Speaker 1: year and their spending was up by four percent, as

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Speaker 1: pumping more than twelve billion dollars into the local economy.

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Speaker 1: So I'm joined now by Sam McKinnon from Hospitality New Zealank.

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Speaker 2: Moody, Sam, Thankkury Andrew.

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Speaker 1: You'd be a happy camper.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously we're pleased to see a listen

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Speaker 2: and spend and arrivals. It's all about things trending in

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Speaker 2: the right direction for us. So yeah, positive to hear

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Speaker 2: that announcement yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So is five percent enough or could we kick it out?

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Speaker 2: Of course we'd love more. Hospitality is also very reliant

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Speaker 2: on the domestic market and we're seeing a list there

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Speaker 2: as well. But you know it's similar sort of number

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Speaker 2: of four percent Akland, five percent, well into the seven

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Speaker 2: percent in christ Church. But you know, we've come through

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Speaker 2: a really challenging period, so I guess seeing that there,

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Speaker 2: seeing that things are trending upwards is a real positive

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Speaker 2: science for us.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, as you say, overseas tourism returning but the

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Speaker 1: domestic spends returning but maybe not enough is our real

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Speaker 1: problem at the moment that kewis are reluctant to open

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Speaker 1: their wallets in the current economic environment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely a contributing sector. I mean, hospitality is

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Speaker 2: definitely a discretionary spend and householder are struggling to cover

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Speaker 2: the cost that they've already got. So we're aware that

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Speaker 2: any spend that we're getting as a benefit at the moment.

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Speaker 2: But I guess as we've started to see some of

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Speaker 2: those increases and income for households around ocr cuts and

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Speaker 2: that sort of stuff, where I guess some of seeing

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Speaker 2: some of that confidence flow back into hospitality spend, which

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Speaker 2: is all positive science heading towards the summer trading period.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you would say to all Keywis, get

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Speaker 1: out there and see your country and spend spend spend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you're able to get out and support hospitality.

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Speaker 1: Now, is this tourism uptick a bit more geographically targeted

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Speaker 1: than in the past, like pre COVID, like more and

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Speaker 1: more people just go into Queenstown.

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Speaker 2: I think Queensland has seen a decent left in that spend.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it's our primary tourism hotspot in New Zealand. See,

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Speaker 2: you'd expect that to be to see a good chunk

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Speaker 2: of that left and spend. I mean, I guess overall,

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Speaker 2: you know there's across New Zealand councilors are trying to

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Speaker 2: work through their destination management plans. Everyone's trying to get

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Speaker 2: a slice of the tourism pires. So as we see

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Speaker 2: that those numbers left, overall, we should see a bit

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Speaker 2: more of that regional dispersal come through.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Sam McKinnon, I thank you from Hospitality New Zealand.

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