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Boots and all: BC set to boost FIFA focus in NZ
Destination British Columbia has released its full series of Iconics, highlighting ideas and itinerary suggestions for agents who have clients heading to FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver this year.
Football and cruising combo ideas
As visitors from around the world start to plan their northern hemisphere summer aligned with taking in a FIFA World cup game, Regent Seven Seas Cruises is luring travellers with Inside Passage sailings to Alaska. These can paired with varied match days.
FIFA: Need to look at big picture
The fillip provided by the FIFA Women’s World Cup to New Zealand’s tourism industry (and wider economy) needs to be noted by the country’s power brokers, says Ben Thornton, owner of small group touring company Bush and Beach.
‘We’ve had three weeks of mid-summer level business, almost exclusively because of FIFA,’ says Thornton, who was attending the Tourism Export Council (TECNZ) Conference in Rotorua this week.
