Tania Tapsell

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The Detail · A clear direction for councils on tourism · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

The visitors are still coming through.

But we're not feeling that we're seeing that money fairly reinvested back into the regions or where it's most needed.

That's where you bring mayors and councils into place and you give us these tools and you will see exactly where this money is coming from.

And I guarantee you, you will also see the benefit because you will have better facilities as locals, better events.

And, you know, we're about to reopen our beautiful Rotorua Museum here, by the way, most complex earthquake strengthening project in the country.

Exactly.

And 10 years, actually, on time, on budget, though, I've got to say.

But we applied for things like the international visit levy.

We were unfortunately declined in that.

So we're copying a lot of that cost as local ratepayers, but international and domestic visitors will benefit.

Now, if we had these levies in place where we can reinvest locally, we wouldn't be sweating so much when we send out the rates bills to our locals, that's for sure.

What I do like about this is it has identified the importance of iwi and mana whenua.

Now, that is reassuring with some of the other things that are coming out of this government.

But what's important there is if you think about the land holdings that they have, and in particular, what's mentioned in here is public conservation land and waters.

you know, from economic, from a tourism perspective, they've also had aspirations, but they haven't necessarily had the support to unlock that.

And so for places like Rotorua, which have significant Māori iwi land holdings, you know, 14 of our 16 lakes are managed, owned, the lake beds are owned by Te Arawa Lakes Trust.

This to me might finally also give them the opportunity.

And this is important because when we

Not only is Rotorua the Māori culture capital of New Zealand, but also when we as a country say, well, what's really unique about us?

Our culture is really strong in that, you know, every, you go overseas anywhere and you say, I'm from New Zealand and they go, ah, the haka, you know, ah, all that stuff.

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