This cartoon in the Mercantile Gazette of 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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Alexander Turnbull Library
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DX-023-003
Cartoon by Ashley W. Smith
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