{"id":47345,"date":"2022-08-11T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/new-zealand-tourism-minister-makes-pitch-to-the-rich-as-he-spurns-10-a-day-travellers"},"modified":"2022-08-11T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T02:41:13","slug":"new-zealand-tourism-minister-makes-pitch-to-the-rich-as-he-spurns-10-a-day-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47345","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand tourism minister makes pitch to the rich as he spurns \u2018$10-a-day\u2019 travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Nash says NZ to \u2018unashamedly\u2019 target wealthy tourists ahead of those who \u2018travel around our country eating two-minute noodles\u2019<\/p>\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<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<p> <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\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Nash says NZ to \u2018unashamedly\u2019 target wealthy tourists ahead of those who \u2018travel around our country eating two-minute noodles\u2019New Zealand\u2019s tourism minister has again expressed his aversion to budget travellers, saying the country will not seek &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-travel"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47346,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47345\/revisions\/47346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}