Tourism has become the country’s biggest export earner, worth $10 billion last year and tipped to surpass $15b a year by 2023.
The 3.5 million visitors who come here each year is expected to increase to 4.9 million over the same period, driven mostly by Asian markets, particularly China.
The single biggest thing visitors associated with New Zealanders was that the people were open and friendly, meaning a dairy on the way from Christchurch to Akaroa was arguably part of the tourism business, says Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon.
“A lot of what we’ve got in this country is also existing in Canada, a lot of our mountains and landscapes and stuff are available in other parts of the world. But the single biggest thing that we see in all those post visit surveys, is ‘I find the New Zealanders so lovely’.
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from Ellie NZ Rss http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/92842972/NZ-tourism-is-flying-and-we-re-the-reason
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