Twenty leading tourism experts will converge on Queenstown for a new, two-day Tourism Policy School next month. Speakers will include World Travel and Tourism Council member Helen Marano, Department of Conservation director-general Lou Sanson, Tourism Industry Aotearoa's Bruce Bassett, and Tourism Export Council NZ chief executive Judy Chen. Prof James Higham, of the department of tourism, said the policy school was an "opportunity to bring together expertise from government, industry, business and academia to discuss and debate the challenges facing the tourism industry". The Tourism Policy School will be opened by Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis, and is a full-day event on March 8. Fifty people will attend the policy school, which Prof Higham hoped would be become an annual event.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 07, 2019 15:22 UTC