:Tourists (Y8)
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Approach: One to one Level: Year 8  
Focus: Benefits of tourism
Resources: Graph card
Questions/instructions:
The graph shows more and more tourists are coming to New Zealand.

There are good things about having more people coming to New Zealand
as visitors.

Tell me 3 things that you think are good about having more tourists coming to
New Zealand.


% responses
2005 (01)
y4
-
Mentioned:
tourists spend money here, help our economy
64 (65)
 
tourists create jobs for New Zealanders
6 (9)
  
tourists enrich our culture
16 (20)
  
tourists encourage development of good facilities
6 (8)
  
“word of mouth” - advertising NZ
49 (48)
  
Total score:
3–5
10 (12)
  
 
2
34 (41)
  
1
41 (32)
  
0
15 (15)
  
Commentary:
In these two similar tasks, most year 4 students showed little appreciation of the value of tourists to New Zealand. Year 8 students scored better but more than half could not describe more than one benefit. There was little change at both year levels between 2001 and 2005.
  
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