Infrastructure crisis looms as 4.5m tourists expected by 2022SUPPLIED By 2022, New Zealand is expected to welcome 4.5 million visitors a year. By 2022, 4.5 million international tourists are expected in New Zealand – a tourist for every resident. EDDIE SPEARING Tourists from Taiwan on a photography holiday of New Zealand make a study of Lake Wanaka's famed "lone tree''. "If we just leave it all to organically appear then I think we'll have an infrastructure deficit," he said. A clear strategy that united both sectors was needed, Simmons said, based on attracting "high-yield" tourists who spend more while they visit.

Source: Stuff June 17, 2016 17:01 UTC