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Nats $22m for cycling and walking, but no plan for industry funding
Christopher Luxon and Joseph Mooney head up the Skyline gondola in Queenstown. (Image: Christopher Luxon)
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The National party has rolled out a domestic tourism package highlighted by a new 80-kilometre Great Walk in northern Canterbury, upgrades to the New Zealand cycle trail with investment in e-bike chargers, and the setting up of a $5 million fund to support regional tourism.The new Great Walk would be an upgrade of the existing trail Waiau-Toa/Molesworth.National said it plans to electrify the New Zealand Cycle Trail, with $3 million to co-invest in e-bike chargers.The package, costed at $22m over four years with an allocation from the internati...

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