TOURIST TRAFFIC

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1927, Page 2

TOURIST TRAFFIC

While this is tide slack season ol the year for bookings for tlie Old Country, there are indications that a record lor outward sailings will he put up early next year. A month ago it was difficult to secure accommodation on some -tI the boats, and the steamers sailing to Europe via Suez in February. March and April are already practically full. It is anticipated that there will be an appreciable number of Americans visiting New Zealand this summer, either singly or in small parties. Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son have arranged for a party of 10, and they state that, although there will he no big conducted tour of Americans to New Zealand in 1928, one will be' arranged for 1929. The inward traffic of tourists from Europe, judging hv the hookings in London, will he very good indeed, and already many of the hotels are hooked up. The local holiday season, ns usual, promises to see a great deal of travelling, especially to the chief resorts. Some of the hotels anil boardinghouses at Rotorua are already full for tho Christmas season, and Mount Cook and Southern resorts have already been largely booked. There is every indication that there will he an especially large How of holiday makers to the Waiho Glacier. The Wailio River has now been bridged, and several smaller streams between that and the Fox Glacier are either bridged or passable, so that a further 19 miles of beautiful hush country are available to the motorist on tho West Coast. —Auckland “ Star.”