Rotorua Canopy Tours on two alternatives to the tourist levy hike

THREE KEY FACTS: The international tourism levy will increase from $35 to $100 from October. The levy goes towards maintaining public services utilised by tourists. International visitors spent more than $11 billion in the year to March 2024.

Paul Button is Rotorua Canopy Tours’ general manager. OPINION There has been a small uproar from the tourism industry in response to the Government’s tripling of the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy (IVL). I count myself amongst that list of critics, but don’t think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.



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