Photo : Sharyn Smart
As the school holidays start families are visiting New Plymouth with Belt Road Seaside Holiday Park proving to be one of the popular places to stay.
Co-owner Teresa Bowe said they were currently full and had not slowed down this winter as much as normal with figures showing it was a busier winter than in previous years.
“Our summer forward bookings are a lot heavier than normal. So we are well up on last year. At the moment we are about 20 per cent up which is great,” she said.
Mrs Bowe said Taranaki residents were talking about all the great things happening here and by being positive and enthusiastic about the area were all helping our Taranaki businesses.
“Everybody in Taranaki does tourism. They talk to their family and friends. There’s heaps happening, you guys should come and visit.”
The motel units are popular and Mrs Bowe said more people were choosing to use them enjoying everything that Breakwater Bay had to offer and then using the foreshore walkway to get to town.
She said “I just think it’s such a neat city to live in because its got the coast, its got the mountain, its got the walkway.”
At Belt Road Seaside Holiday Park owners Teresa and Kevin Bowe believe in manaakitanga and kaitiakitanga – caring for, protecting and managing our beautiful slice of New Zealand – and have earned their Qualmark Bronze Enviro Assured Award in 2012.
At the recent Westpac Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards they won the medium business excellence award and the Air New Zealand visitor industry excellence award adding to their growing list of awards.
Mrs Bowe said that one of their core values is “they care for our people and our place”.
“New Plymouth is a cool town to show off and I just think it’s a town with lots of energy,” she said.
This article was published in the North Taranaki Midweek on October 9, 2013.