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Grant Webster: Tourism Holdings Limited CEO on the Government's planned changes to conservation law · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It's about to get easier for tourism businesses to use
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  Speaker 1: conservation land. Government is introducing the Conservation Reform Bill. It's
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  Speaker 1: also going to allow new international visitor levies at some
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  Speaker 1: of our hot spots. Grant Webster Tourism Holdings Limited, Chief
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  Speaker 1: executive with us this morning. Good a Grant, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. Good to have you on the show. Use
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  Speaker 1: now this, can you just clarify for us the tourism
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  Speaker 1: businesses and conservation land. What sort of stuff are we
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  Speaker 1: talking here?
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  Speaker 2: Are you talking anything from jet boating ski? For us,
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  Speaker 2: it's our cave operations in the way Coamon District. There's
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  Speaker 2: so many.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's not like we're building factories on conservation land,
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  Speaker 1: is it. It's tourism stuff and it's low impact.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's engaging with the environment in a really controlled
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  Speaker 2: and deliberate manner.
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  Speaker 1: What do you reckon that this will do for jobs?
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  Speaker 2: I think this is fantastic All credits, Minister po Tucker.
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  Speaker 2: This is long over due, you know, his release noted
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  Speaker 2: it's been over forty years and it's going to I
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  Speaker 2: think create an opportunity for all round, all year round
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  Speaker 2: jobs and really open up some regions as well, one would.
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  Speaker 1: Hope people are going to freak out about the twenty
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  Speaker 1: to forty dollars levees in some of the places like
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  Speaker 1: you know, Cathedral Cove, Milford Sound. This is very common overseas,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, Grant, Look, it.
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  Speaker 2: Is, and it's it's far better for us to have
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  Speaker 2: fees like that that are in trip rather than at
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  Speaker 2: the border, like the International Visitor levy. Once you're in
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  Speaker 2: and going around, you go, okay, looking extra twenty backs
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  Speaker 2: to see Cathedral Cove. Great, yep, that's that's okay. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: you put something in order and people may go, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I might not go to New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: When do you actually pay it? Does the tourism operator
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  Speaker 1: you know taking you on a ride around Cathedral Cove
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  Speaker 1: or on a kayak? Do they charge it? How does
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  Speaker 1: it get paid?
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's different in different places around the world, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the detail is for this one.
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  Speaker 2: I would hope that we actually wake up do something
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  Speaker 2: simple digital and hopefully Parman of Conservation can do something
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  Speaker 2: like that easy on an app, GEO based and mentoring
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  Speaker 2: this area being on my credit card.
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  Speaker 1: Done sounds too good to be true, Grant, But let's
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  Speaker 1: hope they can do it. Grant Webster Tourism Holdings Limited,
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  Speaker 1: Chief executively For more.
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