Fund to attract conventions
PA Wellington The Government will put $150,000 over the next three years into a new fund to attract conventions to New Zealand. Announcing the funding through the Tourism and Publicity Department, the Minister of Tourism, Mr Moore, said other New
Zealand Convention Association members would contribute about $360,000 in that period. “The business will not come to us. We have to go out and fight for our share,” he said.“Where it is appropriate, I’ll also be making the case for some of these
events when I’m overseas on trade missions and negotiation trips. A new secretariat to coordinate convention promotion would be set up by early March. Mr Moore also said the cruise liner trade would be encouraged as a big tourist growth area. His statement coincided with the visit to Wellington of a Norwegian luxury liner the Royal Viking Star.
Passengers on sucn liners spent about $lO million a year in New Zealand, and supplying provisions for the liners earned another $5 million, Mr Moore said.
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