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Speaker 1: Our cycle trails are working. These are the great rides.

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Speaker 1: They're pumping one point to eight billion. We find out

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Speaker 1: this morning into regional New Zealand visitors spending up thirty

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Speaker 1: five percent on five years ago. Janet perty are interesting

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Speaker 1: in the international tourists make up seventeen percent of all

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Speaker 1: trips now. Janet Perty is the cycle trails to youth

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Speaker 1: for executive and is with this Janet morning I've cured

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Speaker 1: to mic not a criticism, but seventeen percent strikes me

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Speaker 1: as a small number. I would have thought they'd be

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Speaker 1: more international, So it's all basically locals enjoying this.

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Speaker 2: Well. Actually, when the borders were closed obviously we didn't

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Speaker 2: have any internationals coming in, so it's actually a big

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Speaker 2: increase from the last five years. And whilst a's seventeen percent,

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Speaker 2: it's actually a twenty eight percent of that one point

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Speaker 2: to eight billion, so they actually bring in even more money.

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Speaker 2: They spend about one thousand dollars more than our domestic visitors.

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Speaker 1: That's encouraging. So you will say, when I get you

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Speaker 1: back on in five years time, that number internationals will

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Speaker 1: go up because they are spenders, aren't.

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Speaker 2: They absolutely, And you know we're saying we're marketing into Australia,

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Speaker 2: we're marketing into the States, so our plan is to

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Speaker 2: bring a lot more internationals here to do our cycle trails.

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Speaker 1: How do you market Do you market cycling or do

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Speaker 1: you market the region or outback or adventure tourism.

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Speaker 2: We're actually specifically marketing the great right, but the regional

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Speaker 2: tourism organizations will be marketing come to a region and

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Speaker 2: we're looking at that as well. You know, come to

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Speaker 2: Central Otago is about five great rides there. It's a

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Speaker 2: really good place to base yourself and golf and have

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Speaker 2: these cycling adventures. So there's a lot of interest. The

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Speaker 2: global sort of market is estimated to be two hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty four billion US dollars in twenty and thirty,

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Speaker 2: so you know we want a piece of that, of course.

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Speaker 2: You do.

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Speaker 1: Good summer lined up, Janet.

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Speaker 2: Oh, fantastic. Yeah, I'm hoping to get out on a

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Speaker 2: few trails this summer.

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Speaker 1: Good on. You're nice to talk to. You appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Janet Perting, who's the New Zealand Cycle Trails Chief executive.

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