New Zealand Herald, 05 March – Auckland hotel and motel owners are on a collision course with the city’s mayor Phil Goff over a targeted rate they say will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
But Goff says the accommodation providers have never had it so go good and they should pay for tourism promotion. His council would use the money it now spends on promotion to pay for infrastructure and spare residents more in rate rises.
The new rate could raise close to $28 million and ispart of the city’s annual budget which is due to be signed off around the middle of the year. Read more…
