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Lisa Hopkins: Business Events Industry Aotearoa on overseas investors visiting for the Business Events trade show 'Meetings' · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Very easy developments in Italy. A direct election of the
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  Speaker 2: So change is coming. Joe McKinnon on that shortly meantime
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  Speaker 2: back home, country's largest business events trade show. It's underway.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Meetings. It connects overseas investors with domestic industries,
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  Speaker 2: and by god, do we need some of that going
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  Speaker 2: on at the moment. The boss of Business Events Industry,
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  Speaker 2: Lisa Hopkins is with us on all of this. Lisa, Morning,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning night. So it's been held in wrote a Ruer,
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  Speaker 2: give me your vibal sense of wrote Rua's ability to
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  Speaker 2: all that's gone on with emergency housing and stuff in
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess what I can do is I can
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  Speaker 3: tell you. I can give you some direct quotes from
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  Speaker 3: some of our international visitors to say that they have
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  Speaker 3: been blown away by the warmth and hospitality of everything
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  Speaker 3: that they've seen down here in our is an underestimation
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  Speaker 3: or an understatement of what's been going on there is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely you know, this is a city that's really come together.
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  Speaker 3: This is a city that really understands how to take
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  Speaker 3: care of visitors. And they have done an exceptional job.
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  Speaker 3: It's been it's been outstanding. It's just an exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: Event, fantastic. Who are these people? What sort of money
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  Speaker 2: do they have and what are they looking for?
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of these people are either they're what
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  Speaker 3: we call intermediaries. They are working on behalf of a
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  Speaker 3: number of different customers from across a broad spectrum of
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  Speaker 3: different organizations who are either looking to hold their association
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  Speaker 3: conference here in New Zealand or bring their customers to
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand to hold an incentive or another big conference.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the the value of this industry globally
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  Speaker 3: goes into the trillions of dollars. It's a huge, huge industry.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, in New Zealand, with all of its assets,
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  Speaker 3: including the new convention centers, we stand in a really
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  Speaker 3: strong position to do very.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good good good Luxon's been out there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: talking about being open for business. These people understand we
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  Speaker 2: are open for business here one one.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred percent, and they aren't just coming into Rotila. They're
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  Speaker 3: also while they're down here, they're also going into different
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  Speaker 3: parts of the country, so you know, opened well into
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  Speaker 3: christ Church, over into Queenstown as well. They're getting a
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  Speaker 3: really really strong sense of what New Zealand has to offer.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic Lisa good Insight. Thank you for that, Lisa Hopkins,
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  Speaker 2: Business Events industry out here, I CEO with us this morning.
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