{"id":713,"date":"2022-08-11T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=713"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:03:52","slug":"new-zealand-wants-only-wealthy-tourists-to-discourage-budget-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/08\/11\/new-zealand-wants-only-wealthy-tourists-to-discourage-budget-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand wants wealthy tourists, to discourage budget travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s tourism minister has again expressed his aversion to budget travellers, saying the country will not seek to attract those who \u201ctravel around our country on $10 a day eating two-minute noodles\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stuart Nash said the country would unashamedly continue to focus on \u201chigh quality\u201d big spenders, despite one expert saying such visitors typically had a much higher environmental footprint and didn\u2019t necessarily contribute more to the economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/new-zealand-tourism-minister-makes-pitch-to-the-rich-as-he-spurns-10-a-day-travellers?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">New Zealand tourism minister makes pitch to the rich as he spurns \u2018$10-a-day\u2019 travellers | New Zealand | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who promote diversity, equity and inclusion do not actually believe in it, themselves as they seek to limit travel for others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/new-zealand-tourism-looks-past-backpackers-in-favour-of-high-net-worth-individuals\">In 2020, Nash said<\/a> the country would \u201cunashamedly\u201d target the super wealthy, and seek to attract the kind of tourist who \u201cflies business class or premium economy, hires a helicopter, does a tour round Franz Josef and then eats at a high-end restaurant&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, many of those who have already traveled the world extensively now seek to curtail travel by everyone else. They have benefited from international exposure and learned to think globally &#8211; now that they have established their bona fides as globalists, they seek to put an end to others catching up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/hunt-er-13068062\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4661427\">Pawel Grzegorz<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4661427\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand continues to promote access to NZ for wealthy travelers and to actively discourage travel by the less wealthy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background","category-government-regulatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6581,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/6581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}