Tourism NZ chief resigns to head drink companysuppliedThe man charged with selling New Zealand to the world is moving on to sell soft drinks. Tourism Industry Aotearoa chief executive Chris Roberts said that despite having no prior background in tourism, Bowler had made a strong contribution to the industry and won widespread respect for his work. Before joining TNZ Bowler was chief executive of Yahoo!, held a senior marketing position with Telecom, and worked in the packaged food and dairy industries here and in Europe. "It will effect the business person who flies into New Zealand, does a day's business, and flies out again. "Our biggest draw card is our natural infrastructure - our mountains, lakes and coastline.

Source: Stuff August 09, 2016 02:45 UTC