Thursday’s Skal event with Chris Luxon as guest speaker attracted some 70 people, from travel retail and wholesale, hotels, airlines, outbound operators and the inbound sector. Read what Luxon had to say here.

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The travel and tourism sectors have been urged by Leader of the Opposition, Chris Luxon to take the future into their own hands and then work with the government of the day to enable those plans.

Speaking at the Skal Auckland Club lunch at the Northern Club on Thursday, Luxon said it was time to for the industry to think more strategically than it had in the past.