Future role of Tourism New Zealand under review

Tourism's growing pains have prompted a review of Tourism New Zealand and could signal a major shake up in its future role promoting the country. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) said the review was needed because it was increasingly apparent that the tourism sector was struggling to accommodate the rate of growth and rapidly changing visitor expectations.Negative impacts of growth were not being well managed, which was affecting public support for industry, and there was global uncertainty over the international tourism market.The last review of TNZ was done in 2010, but since then MBIE said tourism numbers had increased significantly, putting pressure on infrastructure