* International visitors to pay $35 tourism levy to protect tourist hot spotsThat same day, Tourism Industry Aotearoa (TIA) announced its sustainability commitment. Putting Tourism NZ at the helm of a taskforce to reimagine tourism is unlikely to break the model. What annoys Finlayson is being treated like a garden-variety submitter to the “reimagining tourism” process, via an email from Tourism NZ. How will a domestic marketing campaign work, and what roles will Tourism NZ and regional tourism organisations play? The second part of Upton’s tourism report, due out by the end of the year, will make recommendations about the future of tourism.

Source: Stuff May 04, 2020 20:37 UTC