Stuart Mitchell

Well, today's not beautiful.

It's absolutely peeing it down, which we've had that for probably the last couple of months, to be fair.

But apart from that, everything's great and looking forward to competing against these two other areas to see which one comes out on top.

I've not actually heard of them both, these areas, until today.

So it's going to be a bit of a surprise for me.

Yeah, we are.

Yeah, well...

The big thing for me for Queenstown is that, and you do remind yourself when you're coming in on that plane, you are in the middle of the mountains.

There's no free ride here.

So we've probably got more per capita self-employed people than anywhere else in New Zealand.

So everybody's self-motivated, driven.

People in this town like people that have got a bit of get up and go about them.

There's a real community feel that anything you want to do with sport or whatever, the local businesses will try and fund you and support you because we don't get a lot of help.

So it's all from internal.

So everybody here, you imagine in most places you've got two, three, fourth generation miserable people stuck where they are because that's where the family brought them up and they haven't got the support.

the wherewithal to relocate or travel somewhere else and settle.

Queenstown doesn't have that problem because again, it's probably too expensive to be stuck here.

You'll move somewhere else.

So everybody here, everybody that is here wants to be here.

And then you imagine 3 million people a year coming here on holiday on top of that.