Letters to the editor: Tourism, Saudi Arabia, Dilworth School
21 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Walkers in the southern crater of the Tongariro Crossing. The number of walkers has grown hugely and the track has become crowded. Photo / Mike Scott
Walkers in the southern crater of the Tongariro Crossing. The number of walkers has grown hugely and the track has become crowded. Photo / Mike Scott
NZ Herald
Rules around tourists
Most people believe that we need to restrict future tourists visiting our country, but there are many problems in doing so. This could be done by ballot, but this would entail a bureaucracy to make decisions as to who can come and then someone would have to decide whether a visitor who calls on family, or comes here mainly for business, is a tourist or not. The other way to select tourists is to allow them in after paying a prohibitively high fee, which would mean tourists to New Zealand will only be wealthy ones, stopping all others. Such a high fee