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Want somewhere to stay near the beach this summer? Buy a tent is the advice of Tourism Industry Aotearoa chief executive Chris Roberts, who says most holiday accommodation outside the main cities will be full.
You want somewhere to stay near the beach this summer? Buy a tent. That s the advice of Tourism Industry Aotearoa chief executive Chris Roberts, who says most holiday accommodation outside the main cities will be full. In towns like Porirua, almost every motel and hotel has been booked out by a government agency: the Ministry of Social Development providing homeless people a week or two or emergency accommodation; the Ministry of Housing providing transitional housing for months at a time; Corrections paroling prison inmates with nowhere to go; and of course managed isolation and quarantine housing returning Kiwis.