Kōrero: Tourist industry

Tourist Bureau poster

Tourist Bureau poster

This 1936 Tourist Bureau poster shows a well-dressed woman calling a suited employee of the Government Tourist Bureau to book a tour. A tour of the country like this was only affordable for people of means in the 1930s. The age of mass tourism was still decades away.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-1936-01-front

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.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Margaret McClure, 'Tourist industry - Tourism in the Southern Alps', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/23181/tourist-bureau-poster (accessed 25 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Margaret McClure, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010