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New Zealand Invites Single Male Tourists. Please.

Go to New Zealand, meet a nice girl.

That’s the official message that the New Zealand tourist board is now spreading in Britain with the hope of enticing male British tourists to vacation far from home. There’s a man drought in New Zealand--in the 15-39 age group, there’s just 89 men per 100 women--which is supposed to make British men flock there in droves.

It’s early days just yet, but so far the reaction from British guys hasn’t exactly been a rush to book their London-Auckland flights. Keith, a 28-year-old, for example, says:

It seems an admission of surrender to travel thousands of miles around the world on the off-chance you'll meet your true love there.

All of this seems quite a turnaround from the last New Zealand tourism campaign we remember when they tried to convince us it was a 100 percent pure country. And the crazy thing is that if they just promoted their amazing landscapes we’d be there in a heartbeat.

--AmandaK

Related Stories:
· Man Drought Heads Tourism Campaign [Stuff.co.nz]
· Is New Zealand Really Pure? [Jaunted]
· New Zealand Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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