Letter to the Editor - September 2013
Just to clarify, I’m not myopic but need to respond to the
folly assertion of Tricia Cuthford.
Who can travel on $58 per day as an international visitor,
or $37/ a day as a domestic visitor?
Not everyone is a couch surfer…
More realistic figures come from Infometics (June 2013) re
daily spend, the UK visitor median spend is $90 a day, the Chinese median spend
$500 a day, the average about $220 a day.
That out of the way, the recent 8 week Andy Warhol
exhibition in Wellington attracted over 50,000 people at $17,50 each. People
like art.
Another interesting bit of information, the changes in
international visitors markets now have China as our second largest market with
200,000 visitors.
Chinese outbound market is currently 83 million. Their
premier has decreed that this should rise 5 fold to 200 million in 4 years.
Extrapolate this to NZ, we could be seeing over 1 million
Chinese visitors into NZ, and the market has shifted from guided tours to
longer staying FIT’s (free independent travellers)
Taking that opportunity, plus the potential cruise ship
market and Hotel development plus the self generating Hundertwasser visitors,
multiply these millions of possible generated funds spend in our city over a 10
year LTP period (from which I quoted the 0.6% investment of WDC) than the
hundreds of millions may just have a more realistic sound. Sorry I hadn’t
clarified this enough.
It is a real potential that will only be generated if we
actually decide to do something.
If we don’t , well, it won’t.
We can
wait for hand outs, or enable hand up’s.
I prefer to do the
hard work and get some results.
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