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This cartoon in the Mercantile Gazetteof 2000 suggests how much international tourists meant to the New Zealand economy. By then tourism had become the biggest earner of overseas income for New Zealand.
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Reference: DX-023-003
by Ashley W. Smith
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.