http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11638043

About 160,000 international holiday visitors or 18 per cent last year cited The
Hobbit trilogy as the reason for their initial interest in New Zealand. This had grown from 17 per cent last year.

Yet the usual idiots repeatedly denied there would be a benefit to the effectively zero-cost tax rebate required to keep the film productions here.

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