Conservation Vs Tourism Revenue Balance

Well, Tameapotaka, they announced it and made great fanfare about it this afternoon. They say it's the biggest conservation legislation in almost 40 years, so that's how old the last Conservation Act is, so they're upgrading it. And the point that Tameapotaka made was that tourism on conservation land generates about about 5.3 billion dollars a year. And of course with that it supports jobs across the community and businesses and regional economies so it's time that this act was updated. The faster and easier way to get concessions by removing unnecessary rules that you have to undertake to get any permission to do anything. of the Conservation Estate. So they'll cut the red tape and speed up the decision-making. There'll be clearer and more consistent processes for applying the treaty obligations. The bill also... Well I'm not sure they haven't spelt it out in the release that I got. I couldn't get hold of the bill. Well that's true yeah and the bill also enables international visitor access charges at a small number of highly visited sites. Now you'll know Heather when you go overseas you're obviously always coughing up to get into certain parks and what have you. So it's about time that we did that.