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  2. Tolkien tourism - Wikipedia

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    Many experts and New Zealanders hoped for a renewed Tolkien effect because The Hobbit was also filmed in New Zealand. [ 7 ] Whether or not this was vitally important to New Zealand's tourism industry was a big debating point during short-lived fears that industrial disputes could make the film production occur outside of the country.

  3. Hobbiton Movie Set - Wikipedia

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    It is situated on a family-run farm about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Hinuera and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Matamata, in Waikato, New Zealand, and is now a Tolkien tourism destination, offering a guided tour of the set.

  4. Matamata - Wikipedia

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    New Zealand Railways Department took over the line on 1 April 1886. [14] Initially 40 minutes north of the temporary terminus at Oxford (Tirau) and about an hour from Morrinsville . [ 15 ] For a while Matamata seems to have become a flag station , [ 16 ] [ 17 ] though it did have cattle yards and a 60 ft (18 m) by 30 ft (9.1 m) [ 14 ] a goods ...

  5. Tourism in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Tourism in New Zealand comprised an important sector of the national economy – tourism directly contributed NZ$16.2 billion (or 5.8%) of the country's GDP in the year ended March 2019. [2] As of 2016 tourism supported 188,000 full-time-equivalent jobs (nearly 7.5% of New Zealand's workforce). The flow-on effects of tourism indirectly ...

  6. Millbrook Resort - Wikipedia

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    Millbrook Resort is a luxury resort near Queenstown, New Zealand.It is located 4 kilometres to the west of the historic gold-mining town of Arrowtown.The resort covers 650 acres of the Wakatipu Basin - a glacial valley bordered by the Crown Range, The Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu.

  7. The Shire - Wikipedia

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    The house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton as filmed in New Zealand. The protagonists of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, lived at Bag End, [d] a luxurious smial or hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in the Westfarthing. It was the most comfortable hobbit ...

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