October 10, 2012
Tourism bosses do a haka over too many haka
Posted On October 10, 2012
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Tourism bosses are doing a haka over too many haka.
An evaluation by Tourism New Zealand on its role in getting America's Next Top Model to film here said while it led to positive media coverage, any repeat would require greater control over preventing undesirable imagery being broadcast.
The reviewer suggested giving programme makers a blacklist, including too many shots of rural landscape with sheep and inappropriate and disrespectful use of Maori culture.
One scene included the contestants making faces when greeted by a haka on Mt Eden.