Tauranga business Waimarino Adventure Park is worried the name change for National Park Village will create confusion for its customers.
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Tauranga business Waimarino Adventure Park is worried the name change for National Park Village will create confusion for its customers. Uenuku iwi and the.
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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.