Pitch Engine
The Times Real Estate

.

5 reasons why banishing backpackers and targeting wealthy tourists would be a mistake for NZ

  • Written by James Higham, Professor of Tourism, University of Otago
5 reasons why banishing backpackers and targeting wealthy tourists would be a mistake for NZwww.shutterstock.com

Raise your hand if you’ve ever travelled for weeks or months as a backpacker on a limited daily budget. Keep your hand up if you were made welcome in the places you visited on your OE, enjoyed chance encounters and experienced the generosity of strangers.

And did those experiences leave a lifelong affection for the places...

Read more: 5 reasons why banishing backpackers and targeting wealthy tourists would be a mistake for NZ

More Articles ...

  1. What matters is the home: review finds most retirees well off, some very badly off
  2. 'Courageous' investment means innovation stays in NZ, not sold off overseas
  3. Retirement incomes review finds problems more super won't solve
  4. Workers bear 71% to 100% of the cost of increases in compulsory super
  5. Australia, are you OK? Here are the groups with the highest (and lowest) life satisfaction
  6. How to choose the right Christmas gift: tips from psychological research
  7. 10 ways employers can include Indigenous Australians
  8. We've just signed the world's biggest trade deal, but what exactly is the RCEP?
  9. The US has turned its back on skilled migrants, giving Australia an opening
  10. What a Biden presidency means for world trade and allies like Australia
  11. New data privacy rules are coming in NZ — businesses and other organisations will have to lift their games
  12. Split decision: Telstra's carve-up plan comes 23 years too late for competition and customers
  13. Vital Signs: a global carbon price could soon be a reality – Australia should prepare
  14. An Australian man successfully sued his super fund over climate risk. Here's what that means for your nest egg
  15. There's no need for panic over China’s trade threats
  16. Why is the government trying to make the cashless debit card permanent? Research shows it does not work
  17. Negative interest rates could be coming. What would this mean for borrowers and savers?
  18. Why zero interest rates are here to stay
  19. When to buy Christmas gifts online to get them in time? The answer is now
  20. JobMaker is nowhere near bold enough. Here are four ways to expand it
  21. With house prices soaring again the government must get ahead of the market and become a 'customer of first resort'
  22. $34bn and counting – beware cost overruns in an era of megaprojects
  23. From coal to criticism, this isn't the first time the Coalition has tried to heavy the ANZ
  24. Vital Signs: Sure, the US election is gerrymandered, but so are others, and its hard to stop
  25. Saving for retirement gives you power, and ethical responsibilities
  26. 5 ways the Reserve Bank is going to bat for Australia like never before
  27. A rushed move to virtual AGMs would disempower shareholders
  28. Hijacking anxiety: how Trump weaponised social alienation into 'racialised economics'
  29. $1 billion per year (or less) could halve rental housing stress
  30. Vital Signs: we'll never cut unemployment to 0%, but less than 4% should be our goal
  31. We put forward a way to govern ASIC better. The government said no
  32. Rather than recalling unsafe products, why not ensure they're safe in the first place?
  33. Pumped hydro isn't our energy future, it's our past
  34. Blink and you'll miss it: what the budget did for working mums
  35. Momentum vs underdog status: this time the advantage is with Joe Biden
  36. 'Could do better': Top Australian economists award the budget a cautious pass
  37. Google's huge market share doesn't automatically make it a monopoly
  38. A fad, not a solution: 'city deals' are pushing universities into high-rise buildings
  39. Gaming the board: Crown Resorts shows you just can't bet on 'independent' directors
  40. Explainer: why the government can't simply cancel its pandemic debt by printing more money
  41. At the heart of the broken model for funding aged care is broken trust. Here's how to fix it
  42. Mathias Cormann wants to lead the OECD. The choice it makes will be pivotal
  43. Another building-site death adds to demands for industrial manslaughter laws
  44. The budget promises jobs, but does little for workers in the gig economy
  45. Beyond the police state to COVID-safe: life after lockdown will need a novel approach
  46. New modelling finds investing in childcare and aged care almost pays for itself
  47. No snapback: the budget sets us up for an unreasonably slow recovery. Here's how
  48. Virgin sacrifice: boardroom bloodletting signals a classic private-equity hijacking
  49. COVID won't kill populism, even though populist leaders have crisis badly
  50. Vital Signs: yes, we need to make things in Australia, but not like in the past