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The episode discusses a new tourism plan that clarifies the roles of councils in attracting visitors.

The government's made a sport of bashing councils for overspending, but a new tourism plan acknowledges that they're about more than just rubbish, roads, and water Local bodies welcome a substantial plan for tourism that clearly lays out whose job it is to do what, including attracting visitors into towns through events Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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