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No plan, no future, no hope - Tauranga tourism bosses defeated ahead of Budget 2021
19 May, 2021 06:00 AM
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Waimarino Adventure Park owner Blair Anderson. Photo / Supplied
Bay of Plenty Times
By: Kiri Gillespie and Zoe Hunter
Bay of Plenty s bruised and battered tourism and hospitality sectors need more than the potential promise of financial support in this year s Budget to help recover, industry leaders say. Waimarino Group director Blair Anderson the Bay of Plenty tourism sector needed to see a plan. There s no plan, there s no future, hope. At the moment tourism is in a holding pattern.
Anderson said he believed New Zealand had another 18 months of hibernation without international visitors. While the business has been focused on domestic tourism and after-school activities, which had helped, there hadn t been enough income for anything beyond just getting by.
Tauranga Business Awards: Nominations now open for 2021
17 May, 2021 08:00 PM
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Heilala Vanilla won the supreme award at the Westpac Business Awards 2020. Photo / Salina Galvan Photography
Heilala Vanilla won the supreme award at the Westpac Business Awards 2020. Photo / Salina Galvan Photography
Nominations are now open for Tauranga s annual awards celebrating local businesses, which have returned for 2021 with a new name. The departure of Westpac as the long-standing principal sponsor has seen the event renamed the Tauranga Business Awards.
Hosted by the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce, the awards were scheduled to be launched this morning via a virtual video event.
Impacts of Chorus fire-damaged cable widespread and significant
16 May, 2021 05:00 AM
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Chorus technicians under the Tauranga Harbour Bridge repairing a severely fire-damaged 96-fibre internet cable. Photo / George Novak
Chorus technicians under the Tauranga Harbour Bridge repairing a severely fire-damaged 96-fibre internet cable. Photo / George Novak
Just how much a major phone and internet outage across the Bay of Plenty cost the economy is yet to be determined but business and community leaders say it could be significant. On Friday Chorus 96-fibre cable was damaged in a fire under the Tauranga Harbour Bridge just before 10.30am.
It resulted in phone and broadband outages to about 3000 home and business customers across several providers.