在新西兰
总理约翰基身兼旅游部长，却对于维持新西兰旅游业的国际领先地位上业绩惨淡，他应当好好反省自己。 由旅游业联合会与林肯大学发布的旅游界2012年报告有如一份诉状，控诉政府无法维持我国这一几十亿纽元产业的
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由旅游业联合会与林肯大学发布的旅游界2012年报告有如一份诉状，控诉政府无法维持我国这一几十亿纽元产业的败绩。
真正令人担忧的正是业界内部感觉到新西兰旅游业走向疲软并失去其曾有的风光和优势。旅游业是新西兰经济的支柱产业，每天为我国带来6300万收入而且几乎每10位新西兰人里便有一人受雇于旅游业。
约翰基接手旅游部长一职因为这是个重任。他相信他本人的总理光环会为旅游业带来极大的促进。显然，事实却不是这样。
国家党政府里其他的部长们――贺琪娅•帕拉塔、朱迪•柯林斯、菲尔•希特利、格瑞•布朗尼等正处于毫无业绩或表现欠佳的压力下，但现在约翰基也有必要好好检点一下自己了。
对基总理来说，只管对着镜头顾盼左右、微笑招手是不够的――旅游业需要的是艰苦奋斗，需要准备好与业界并肩奋战、做实事的部长和政府。
如果不是为了去年的橄榄球世界杯――而约翰基丝毫没有因之得分――来自旅游业的反对声浪甚至会更大。
橄榄球世界杯是一个不同执政者创造不同结果的最好例子。正是前工党总理海伦克拉克联手Jock Hobbs与国际橄榄球董事局协商而争取赢得了新西兰的主办权。若工党再度执政，我们将任命一位视旅游业为首要大事的人来当部长。
除非我们的政府和部长能够致力于与业界共同努力来创造旅游业优势，我国的旅游业是无法复兴的。很明显在约翰•基政府的领导下这一切没有发生。约翰•基自视为旅游业的救世主，显然他不是！（霍建强议员办公室供稿）
David SHEARER Labour Leader
22 June 2012 MEDIA STATEMENT Key fails to do hard graft in tourism Prime Minister John Key should turn the blow torch on himself for his poor performance as Tourism Minister in maintaining the New Zealand tourism industry at the leading edge internationally, says Labour Leader David Shearer.
“The State of the Tourism Sector 2012 report by the Tourism Industry Association and Lincoln University is an indictment of the Government’s failure to maintain the momentum of this multi-billion dollar industry,” David Shearer said.
“The fact that the tourism sector itself feels that the industry has gone flat and lost its edge is a matter of real concern. Tourism is of vital economic importance to New Zealand as a $63 million-a-day industry that employs nearly one in 10 Kiwis.
“John Key took on the portfolio himself because it is such a major one. He believed his mana as Prime Minister would provide a real boost to the sector,” David Shearer said. “Clearly it hasn’t done so.
“Other Ministers --- HekiaParata, Judith Collins, Phil Heatley, Gerry Brownlee --- are under pressure for non-performance or sub-par performance, but John Key actually needs to take a long look at himself.
“It’s not enough for John Key to swan around indulging in photo ops and smiling and waving --- tourism needs hard graft, and needs a minister and a government that is prepared to get in alongside the sector and do the serious yards.
“If it wasn’t for the Rugby World Cup last year --- and John Key can’t take any credit for that --- the tourism sector would be up against it even more,” David Shearer said.
“The RWC is actually an excellent example of the way a government can make a difference. Former Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark joined the late Jock Hobbs in the International Rugby Board negotiating room and helped win the tournament for this country.
“When Labour is re-elected, we will appoint a minister who has tourism as a primary focus, not just as a plaything,” David Shearer said.
“We won’t get our tourism edge back unless we have got a government and a minister committed to working with the sector to create it. That clearly isn’t happening under John Key, and won’t happen until he goes. He saw himself as some sort of tourism messiah. He clearly isn’t!”