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Tauranga's merged Mount Maunganui i-SITE pod moved to Salisbury Wharf for summer

Samantha Motion
By Samantha Motion
Regional Content Leader·Bay of Plenty Times·
5 Oct, 2018 08:15 PM2 mins to read

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The Mount i-SITE has moved to Salisbury Wharf for summer, merging with the cruise ticketing office. Photo / John Borren

The Mount i-SITE has moved to Salisbury Wharf for summer, merging with the cruise ticketing office. Photo / John Borren

Salisbury Wharf's old cruise ticketing office has been merged and replaced with the pop-up Mount i-SITE container.

The container was located in the old Phoenix carpark last summer but needed a new home when work began earlier this year to transform that site into a green space.

Tourism Bay of Plenty chief executive Kristin Dunne said combining the ticketing office with the i-Site was a temporary measure until the proposed Mount Maunganui i-SITE was built at 10 Salisbury Ave.

She said the combination provided a better customer service experience and also reduced overheads. It was rented from a Whakatāne business at a cost of $478 a month.

"The feedback so far has been extremely positive," she said.

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"We have already had lots of local residents, domestic and international visitors call in while we were busy setting up for the first cruise ship today.

"We also still run a large sales and service operation within the Port of Tauranga grounds – for passengers only."

Dunne said a permanent visitor centre in Salisbury Ave was urgently required, given a 35 per cent increase in ships and passengers this seasons and continued forecast growth.

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The $5 million project has run into funding trouble. While Tauranga City council had approved $4 million, two government funders had turned down applications for the remaining $1 million.

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The i-SITE will be open daily from 10am to 4pm from November 19 to the end of the peak summer season. It will be open every day a cruise ship visits until the 19th.

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