OVERSEAS TOURISTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 8

OVERSEAS TOURISTS

Promising Flow Checked

‘•The extension of the war to the Pacific had the immediate effect of cutting off rhe promising flow of tourist traffic which had been setting in from India, the Malav States and the Dutch East Indies, states the annual report of the Department of Tourist anti Health Resorts and Publicity for the year ended March .51 The report continues: “Within the Dominion itself the department’s bureaux and am-ncy offices continue to record a largo amount of internal travel business which has helped in some measure to offset the cessation of overseas traffic. Business done ill this direction is well up to, and in several cases exceeds, that recorded during the previous year, this being no doubt mainly accounted for by the fact that New Zealanders are largely confined to travel within the Dominion in lieu of proceeding overseas. Overseas offices of the department have turned their, attention to the urgent problems of supply tn connexion with the war. This .applies with equal force to the New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissioners in the United States, Canada and Australia, where their efforts are proving of great value to this Dominion.”

The report states that all matters.in connexion with overseas publicity, with th - exception of those bearing on the Doniin'oii's war effort, had had to he dras-tie.-.lly curtailed. Owing to the shortage <,f aper it had been necessary to reduce tie- dispatch of literature overseas to. the mi-i'ieiiiii requirements of the main offices, an ' stocks were being rigidly conserved in o'-der that immediate supplies might be a'.ai'.-ildc for a resumption of the tourist drive at the end of hostilities.