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N.Z. Rugby Organizer Says Fans Will Weather Stronger Kiwi
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New Zealand organizers of the Rugby World Cup this year are confident overseas fans will arrive ready to spend even as the nation’s soaring currency erodes the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar and British pound.
“I haven’t picked up any chatter from anywhere else in the world that the currency is getting in the way,” Martin Snedden, chief executive officer of Rugby New Zealand 2011 Ltd. said in an interview yesterday in Wellington. “The numbers will get there.”