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Rebecca Ingram: Tourism Industry Aotearoa CEO on the TRENZ tourism business event running this week in Auckland · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Two parts story now though on tourism. So the industry
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  Speaker 2: gathers at trens Expo, twelve hundred delegates, three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine international travel buyers, twenty seven country So that's
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  Speaker 2: all good. Rebecca Ingram is the tourist industry boss and
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  Speaker 2: as with us, Rebecca morning, good morning. So the two
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  Speaker 2: parts of the story. Part one is that you're at
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  Speaker 2: the new Convention Center in Auckland. So that means people
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  Speaker 2: are coming to the center. Build it and they will
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  Speaker 2: come and they will spend. So how much are you
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  Speaker 2: going to spend? Because you're all large drinkers, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we anticipate we're going to invest about three million
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  Speaker 3: dollars in the Auckland economy over the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: But that's just a provisional number. I mean, the event
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  Speaker 3: itself being an Auckland is really consequential. And as you say,
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  Speaker 3: we get to do it at the beautiful new ends
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  Speaker 3: at ICC and showcase all of what Auckland's got to offer.
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  Speaker 3: We've got all of those buyers that you were just
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  Speaker 3: talking about currently getting ready to go off on twenty
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  Speaker 3: two different experiences around Auckland this morning, and then they
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  Speaker 3: come back and they do start all of their appointments
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  Speaker 3: with all these different tourism businesses. So we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do sixteen thousand business meetings this week. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a big one.
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  Speaker 2: So you're bullish in general in an economy that's war
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  Speaker 2: ravaged and we're all a bit down in the dumps,
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  Speaker 2: you're a sector that's bullish. Is that fair?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're certainly a sector that's hustling and got our
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  Speaker 3: eye on making sure that we can do the very
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  Speaker 3: best job we can for New Zealand. So the meetings
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  Speaker 3: that will happen this week between tourism businesses in New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand and these international buyers, some of it will be
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  Speaker 3: about this summer, but most of it is going to
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  Speaker 3: be about the summer after that and the summer after that,
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  Speaker 3: and so the benefit of trends is multi layered and
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  Speaker 3: multi year fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all I can do is wish you the very
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  Speaker 2: best with it and how it goes well. Rebecca Ingram
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  Speaker 2: out of Tourism New Zealand NZ me this company did
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  Speaker 2: a survey I'm reading yesterday. There are three on tourism.
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  Speaker 2: Three point one two million of us who are tourists,
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  Speaker 2: who have been tourists in the last year, three point
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  Speaker 2: one two million. The interesting thing is five point three
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  Speaker 2: million in total population. That's a tremendous number of US
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  Speaker 2: that are tourists. And we've hooked into tourism seemingly. We
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  Speaker 2: love travel post COVID. It's real. So on one hand,
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  Speaker 2: we'll moan about the cost of petrol and moan about
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  Speaker 2: the cost of butter, but we will travel and we
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  Speaker 2: will pay through the nose for that. So it's an
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  Speaker 2: interesting time, isn't it.
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