Story: Coaches and long-distance buses

Tiki Tours brochure

The New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau put together low-cost coach tours in 1946 and called them Tiki Tours. At first they concentrated on government-owned Tourist Hotel Corporation hotels. But by 1966, when this brochure was produced, their tour network covered the whole country.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-TIKI-1966-02

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How to cite this page:

Jane Tolerton, 'Coaches and long-distance buses - Long-distance buses: 1940s onwards', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/interactive/20942/tiki-tours-brochure (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 11 Mar 2010