23rd February 2018 PGF / TGP / TIF
Tourism in Northland, Tairāwhiti-East Coast, Hawke’s Bay, Manawatū-Whanganui and the West Coast will be among the first beneficiaries of the first deployment from the $1bn Provincial Growth Fund.
The $8m per year Tourism Growth Partnership (TGP) has been frozen in a likely precursor to it being terminated.
The government has increased the Regional Mid-sized Tourism Facilities Grant Fund by $5.5m to help build infrastructure to cope with booming tourism growth.
Two Rotorua and two Southland attractions have been granted nearly $2.5m in funding from the Tourism Growth Partnership.