Tourism
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
HUTCHINS, Olive Doreen interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0550
Overview
For about twenty years, Olive was a member of the Board of Directors of Real Journeys (formerly trading as Fiordland Travel Ltd), one of New Zealand's largest tourist operators. Her late husband, Les Hutchins, was instrumental in shaping and developing tourism in Fiordland from small beginnings in 1954 to the multi-million dollar industry it has become in 2005.
In this profile, Olive describes the changes she has witnessed from life on a farm in Myross Bush, bringing up a young family on the...
Dates:
2005
MILLER, Elizabeth Carolyn (Liz) interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 33
Identifier: H0271
Overview
This interview is part of the Grand Hotel Project. In it Liz recalls her time working as a waitress at the Grand Hotel and the visit there by the Queen in 1954. She worked here for five years after school and in holidays prior to attending Training College and a spending a year learning speech therapy in Christchurch. She worked as a speech therapist before teaching. Liz also give an insight into her family life during this time.
Dates:
2016
MOSS, David Thomas (Dave) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0564
Overview
The tourism industry has been an essential contributor to the local economy of the Te Anau Basin since the formation of the Milford Track in the late 1800s. Following the opening of a vehicle route to Milford Sound in the 1950s, the number of visitors to the district has grown to the extent that an estimated 650,000 people a year spend at least a few hours at Milford. Dave Moss, has just retired from the local hospitality industry after about 35 years involvement. First, he was at Milford...
Dates:
2006
MURRELL, John Robert (Jack) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0553
Overview
As Jack explains through the interview, his connection with Manapouri reaches back several generations. His great grandfather, (Old Bob) Robelt Murrell arrived at Bluff in 1863 and settled at Balloon Loop (by the Waiau River) two years later. The Murrell family is one of first explorers, farmers, tour guides and accommodation providers in the Te Anau Basin. In this profile, Jack is historian and raconteur. He also gives a personal account of growing up in an area that has undergone enormous...
Dates:
2004
NEILSEN, William David (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0548
Overview
As he says during the recording, Bill's intention, on first being appointed General Manager of the THC Hotel in Te Anau in 1979, was to do the job for a couple of years and move on. Twenty-five years later he is still living in the town having played a prominent role in tourism in both Te Anau and Milford Sound. In this profile, Bill not only discusses tourism and the development of the hospitality industry in the region and across New Zealand, but he also provides an insight into the lives of...
Dates:
2005
RADFORD, Walter George interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 49
Identifier: H0537
Overview
George's introduction to Te Anau coincided with his involvement in the development of the Te Anau glow worm caves in 1948. The town was still village-sized when he and his wife Alma decided a year later to set up a small grocery shop amid the handful of cribs that existed between the manuka scrub on the lakefront. George has been a founding member of a few organisations in the town and instrumental in forming the Te Anau Volunteer Fire Brigade which in 2004 celebrated its 50th anniversary. In...
Dates:
2004
RITCHIE, Ian Andrew interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0545
Overview
Ritchie Air Services was the first commercial passenger air operator to be established in Te Anau. It was October 1960 when Ian's wife Dell was put behind a desk with a book of tickets while her husband took their first Te Anau passengers on a scenic flight around the Basin. The business, started in Gore, shifted its operating base to the resort town the following year where Ian, Dell and family changed the way visitors and residents could view the mountain and lake scenety of Fiordland. In...
Dates:
2004
ROBBIE, Valerie Joan (Val) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0555
Overview
Holidays in Te Anau were a regular event for Val from a very young age. As a result, she is one of a handful of people with memories of summers on a section of land just a stone's throw from Lake Te Anau which was bordered by scrub and manuka and indented by makeshift wharves and boatsheds. By the late 1930s, the family had gone upmarket after being allowed to build a 'crib' on the same section. The dwelling, which was extended and upgraded over the years, was soon one of a motley collection of...
Dates:
2005
SCOON, Alister Lydon (Allie) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 54
Identifier: H0577
Overview
Leaving school as soon as he was able, Allie began his builders apprenticeship with the same Dunedin firm, McLellan Construction that employed his father. It was a move which saw Allie forge a long-term career in the building trade that led to his overseeing some major projects in the Te Anau Basin in the early 1970s, including a complete redevelopment of the fire-damaged Te Anau Hotel and an early version of eco-tourism design at Takaro Lodge on the edge of the Fiordland National Park.
This...
Dates:
2008
TEMPLETON, Desmond Walter (Des) interviewed by Marianne Widmer
Record Group — Box 18
Identifier: H0166
Overview
In this interview Des explains the history of and family connection to flax milling in Southland; and the various places they have milled. Des tells of his siblings' careers and his choice to work in the flax mill industry. He discusses the outside pressures on running a mill successfully and what lead to the demise of this industry e.g., competition, economic and political factors. He goes on to talk about their mill being reopened as a working museum and it’s place in local tourism.
Dates:
2006
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